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This is a book about literature and love, in which its author brilliantly and poetically links the questions of love and desire and the questions of literature, between the quest of lovers and the quest of writers and readers. She looks at the impact of reading and writing on literature and on the view of love and time. In this book, Anne Carson delves into an interesting and in-depth study of representations of love. Eros is the Greek god of love and desire in literature. But it does not do this from the standpoint of observation and collection, but rather from simple and difficult questions at the same time, sweet and bitter questions, just like Eros. Questions about the nature of love itself, about what the lover wants from his lover, and what he wants
The lover of love, and of time.
Anne Carson: A Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and university professor specializing in classics, born in 1950. She has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at several universities in Canada and the United States since 1979, including the universities of Michigan, New York, and Princeton. She has more than twenty books of poetry, studies, and translation. She has received numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize twice, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, and the PEN/Nabokov Prize. She was appointed a member of the Order of Canada Award Committee in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian literature and culture.
