How the French Invented Love

Download or Read eBook How the French Invented Love PDF written by Marilyn Yalom and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
How the French Invented Love
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9780062048325
ISBN-13 : 0062048325
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Book Synopsis How the French Invented Love by : Marilyn Yalom

Book excerpt: “Absolutely marvelous…lively and learned….Marilyn Yalom’s book is a distinguished contribution to our experience of a great literature, as well as an endearing memoir.” —Diane Johnson, author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce “[An] enchanting tour of French literature—from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) How the French Invented Love is an entertaining and masterful history of love à la française by acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom. Spanning the Middle Ages to the present, Yalom explores a love-obsessed culture through its great works of literature—from Moliere’s comic love to the tragic love of Racine, from the existential love of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to the romanticism of George Sand and Alfred de Musset. A thoroughly engaging homage to French culture and literature interlaced with the author’s delicious personal anecdotes, How the French Invented Love is ideal for fans of Alain de Botton, Adam Gopnik, and Simon Schama.


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