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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism Reprint Edition
Author(s): Octavio Paz (Author), Helen Lane (Translator)
- Publisher: Ecco
- Publication Date: June 1, 1996
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0156003651
- ISBN-13: 9780156003650
Book Description
In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. “Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity” (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.
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About the Author
Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.
