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desertcart.in - Buy The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism book online at best prices in India on desertcart.in. Read The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism book reviews & author details and more at desertcart.in. Free delivery on qualified orders. Review: Pirated copy - The product in question seemed to be a pirated copy with light hazy print not easy on the eye and the page quality is not up to the mark Review: I read this book slowly, underlining passages, re-reading certain passages to fully absorb the text. Paz is a passionate poet/thinker and his passionate prose is translated well into English by Helen Lane. He knows what he loves and his ability to both entertain and edify is outstanding. Like most surveys of Western Culture/History, he begins in Greece and traverses the centuries by exploring the trends, ideas and influences that resonate with love and eros from throughout the world. Plato's discussion on the love of beauty is here as is India's Kama Sutra and so forth. He discusses the role of the Troubadours in Provence, Courtly Love, Medieval Love, Dante, all the way up to the modern psychology of Freud and beyond. He is both a historian and interpreter, a critic and a specialist. In discussing our modern understanding of love, he too comments on 'eros' being prostituted by the mass market world we live in. Pornography is put under the mental microscope as is the abuse of sexual images used in advertising. The greatest present threat to eros and love is not the Church, Paz claims but promiscuity itself, turning 'love into a pastime, and money'. I am in complete agreement. The sacred, which was once so much a part of eros has been slackened and taken away. There is great truth in this book and beauty and a call to everyone to strive towards learning, not only about the world but about one's self. Paz reminds the reader of how greatly cultured our world is, how we are indebted to the minds of past artists and thinkers, how love and eros have benefited from mythology and the cultivation of narration and poetry. It is up to us to make sure we don't take for granted this great bounty of works and ideas.
| Best Sellers Rank | #407,902 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #135 in Literary Theory #142 in European Literature (Books) #677 in History & Surveys |
| Country of Origin | India |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (54) |
| Dimensions | 13.34 x 1.83 x 20.32 cm |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Generic Name | Book |
| ISBN-10 | 0156003651 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0156003650 |
| Importer | HarperCollins Publishers India |
| Item Weight | 318 g |
| Language | English |
| Packer | HarperCollins Publishers India |
| Print length | 288 pages |
| Publication date | 1 June 1996 |
| Publisher | Ecco Pr |
B**A
Pirated copy
The product in question seemed to be a pirated copy with light hazy print not easy on the eye and the page quality is not up to the mark
F**Y
I read this book slowly, underlining passages, re-reading certain passages to fully absorb the text. Paz is a passionate poet/thinker and his passionate prose is translated well into English by Helen Lane. He knows what he loves and his ability to both entertain and edify is outstanding. Like most surveys of Western Culture/History, he begins in Greece and traverses the centuries by exploring the trends, ideas and influences that resonate with love and eros from throughout the world. Plato's discussion on the love of beauty is here as is India's Kama Sutra and so forth. He discusses the role of the Troubadours in Provence, Courtly Love, Medieval Love, Dante, all the way up to the modern psychology of Freud and beyond. He is both a historian and interpreter, a critic and a specialist. In discussing our modern understanding of love, he too comments on 'eros' being prostituted by the mass market world we live in. Pornography is put under the mental microscope as is the abuse of sexual images used in advertising. The greatest present threat to eros and love is not the Church, Paz claims but promiscuity itself, turning 'love into a pastime, and money'. I am in complete agreement. The sacred, which was once so much a part of eros has been slackened and taken away. There is great truth in this book and beauty and a call to everyone to strive towards learning, not only about the world but about one's self. Paz reminds the reader of how greatly cultured our world is, how we are indebted to the minds of past artists and thinkers, how love and eros have benefited from mythology and the cultivation of narration and poetry. It is up to us to make sure we don't take for granted this great bounty of works and ideas.
J**H
Imagine writing a book on history of and about Love... mega subject...well Octavio has...! He nicely defines levels for eroticism and love... The double flame... Second time I read this book...better by it... The term Love is covering too much stuff... In Greenland they have 21 names for snow... Even in Danish we have a distinction for falling in love...Too much love...! Blind with love... The subject for my love is ALL... so it seems... but in reality...I am just egoistic...! I love to love...! Octavio Paz gets very close to how we are wired... our 3 brains: low brain...sense...sex...survival... middle brain...emotions...eros...object... top brain...abstractions...loves a subject...
M**C
The last chapter deserves the reading of the preceding chapters.
D**G
Surprisingly not very erotic
S**E
Octavio Paz provides a thought provoking journey through the history of love and eroticism through the ages. Much food for thought! I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of love and eroticism.
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