![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From the star-crossed affairs of distant historical figures and the exciting sex lives of the existentialists to how France has influenced our modern. ![]() A thoroughly engaging homage to French culture and literature interlaced with the author’s delicious personal anecdotes, How the French Invented Love is ideal for fans of Alain de Botton, Adam Gopnik, and Simon Schama. Marilyn Yalom’s How The French Invented Love (Harper Perennial) is a rich, ribald and immaculately researched account of how the French became the world’s most romantic race. Spanning the Middle Ages to the present, Yalom explores a love-obsessed culture through its great works of literature-from Moliere’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. How the French Invented Love is an entertaining and masterful history of love à la française by acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom. ![]() “ enchanting tour of French literature-from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st.” Diane Johnson, author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce “Absolutely marvelous.lively and learned.Marilyn Yalom’s book is a distinguished contribution to our experience of a great literature, as well as an endearing memoir.” ![]()
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