| The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV Contributor(s): Strömquist, LIV (Author), Bowers, Melissa (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1683964594 ISBN-13: 9781683964599 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books OUR PRICE: $21.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2023 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Humorous - Humor | Topic - Men, Women & Relationships |
| Dewey: 741.594 |
| LCCN: 2021935309 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.8" W x 9.5" (1.05 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models? Her answer -- in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays -- tracks how philosophers and artists, from the Ancient Greeks to Beyoncé, conceptualized romantic love. Strömquist's signature characters, drawn in a flat, blocky style, ask each other questions and offer sharp commentary as they guide readers throughout history and the change in societies' values, from showing love/loving to getting love/being loved. (Poet Hilda H.D. Doolittle -- who was so love-stricken by a man taking off his glasses that she believed they viewed dolphins together in another dimension -- lends the book its title.) Lord Byron, Socrates, Byung-Chul Han, Ezra Pound, Slavoj Zizek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many others have cameos. For the first time in English, in The Reddest Rose, Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive? |