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"In The Double Flame, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love - themes that have been a constant in his writing, from his first published poems to the great works of his maturity. Beginning with Plato's Symposium, he gives a short history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the ages: from the influence of the great cities Alexandria and Rome on the development of love poetry, to courtly love in Heian Japan and twelfth-century France, to love in modern novels such as Madame Bovary and Ulysses. Rich in scope, The Double Flame…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 1996The Double FlameHarcourt · 9780614976489
- Other · English · 1996The Double FlameHarvest/HBJ Book · 288 pages · 9780156003650
- Other · English · 1996The double flameHarvill Press · 206 pages · 9781860462504
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