The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism

by Octavio Paz

Overview

In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. “Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity” (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156003650
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/01/1996
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	513,992
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Editorial Reviews

A learned, thoughtful study of love and literature.

San Francisco Chronicle

Elegant, pensive and intimate...a brilliant synthesis of ideas.

Boston Globe

The Double Flame is a tour de force -- generous, engrossing, insightful, rewarding, the testament to a portentous mind, a volume about ethos by a youthful old man. Its scope helps explain, once again, why Paz, Mexican by birth and cosmopolitan by education, is this century's intellectual conscience.

Washington Post Book World

Nobel laureate Paz presents a humanist examination of the roles played by love and eros in modern life and society. (June)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly