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The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV
The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models? Her answer -- in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays -- tracks how philosophers and artists, from the Ancient Greeks to Beyoncé, conceptualized romantic love. Strömquist's signature characters, drawn in a flat, blocky style, ask each other questions and offer sharp commentary as they guide readers throughout history and the change in societies' values, from showing love/loving to getting love/being loved. (Poet Hilda "H.D." Doolittle -- who was so love-stricken by a man taking off his glasses that she believed they viewed dolphins together in another dimension -- lends the book its title.) Lord Byron, Socrates, Byung-Chul Han, Ezra Pound, Slavoj Zizek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many others have cameos. For the first time in English, in The Reddest Rose, Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive?
Book Details
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Publish Date: Jan 31st, 2023
- Pages: 184
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.50in - 6.80in - 0.70in - 1.05lb
- EAN: 9781683964599
- Categories: • Nonfiction - History• Humorous• Topic - Men, Women & Relationships
About the Author
Strömquist, LIV: - Liv Strömquist was born in Sweden and lives in Malmö. She is a radio host with a degree in political science. An activist, her left-leaning, award-winning comics have been published in zines and magazines. Fruit of Knowledge has sold 40,000 copies in Sweden, been adapted for the stage, and has been published worldwide.
Bowers, Melissa: - Melissa Bowers is a translator and editor. She lives in Seattle, WA.
Praise for this book
[On Fruit of Knowledge]: Veers from the educational to the whimsical...--Hillary Chute "The New York Times"
If her strips are clever, angry, funny and righteous, they're also informative to an eye-popping degree.-- "The Guardian"
A nervy application of social theory that makes for an invigorating primer and a jarring riposte to present-day assumptions on dating, attachment, and the nuclear family.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Stromquist didn't make a comic book; she made a journalistic examination with a cartoonist's eye.-- "AIPT Comics"
In her feminist, irreverent comics, Strömquist delights in tackling massive (even titanic) topics from surprising angles, educating readers while making them laugh and blush.-- "Words Without Borders"