Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
by Anne Carson
In this 1986 essay adapted from her doctoral thesis, the Classicist Anne Carson considers the complex nature of eros – romantic love – in all its maddening, miserable, ecstatic glory. Writing in the Observer, Erica Wagner declared it is “a cult classic with good reason”; “the kind of book that just blows the doors off your mind.”
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