Marilyn Yalom
â€œAbsolutely marvelousâ€¦lively and learnedâ€¦.Marilyn Yalomâ€™s book is a distinguished contribution to our experience of a great literature, as well as an endearing memoir.â€ â€”Diane Johnson, author of ,Lulu in Marrakech, and ,Le Divorce,â€œ[An] enchanting tour of French literatureâ€”from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st.â€ â€”,Publishers Weekly, (starred review),How the French Invented Love, is an entertaining and masterful history of love Ã  la franÃ§aise by acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom. Spanning the Middle Ages to the present, Yalom explores a love-obsessed culture through its great works of literatureâ€”from Moliereâ€™s comic love to the tragic love of Racine, from the existential love of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre to the romanticism of George Sand and Alfred de Musset. A thoroughly engaging homage to French culture and literature interlaced with the authorâ€™s delicious personal anecdotes, ,How the French Invented Love, is ideal for fans of Alain de Botton, Adam Gopnik, and Simon Schama.
Nonfiction,History,Cultural,France,Love,Writing,Books About Books,Romance,Relationships,Historical,Cultural,Literature
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance