Using drawings, quizzes and quotes from famous philosphers, de Botton presents a postmodern look at the ups and downs of a love affair.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"The Romantic Movement sheds light on the nature of relationships . . . The method of telling much and showing little produces a good deal of wit, cogency, and humor."...
Using drawings, quizzes and quotes from famous philosphers, de Botton presents a postmodern look at the ups and downs of a love affair.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"The Romantic Movement sheds light on the nature of relationships . . . The method of telling much and showing little produces a good deal of wit, cogency, and humor."--John Updike, The New Yorker
"A reader gets whiffs of Donald Barthelme, Julian Barnes, Woody Allen, the films of Eric Rohmer . . . Mr. de Botton borrows exuberantly, and well, from his forebears . . . therein lies the buoyant charm of the approach."--Lisa Zeidner, The New York Times Book Review
Review
"The Romantic Movement sheds light on the nature of relationships . . . The method of telling much and showing little produces a good deal of wit, cogency, and humor."--John Updike, The New Yorker
"A reader gets whiffs of Donald Barthelme, Julian Barnes, Woody Allen, the films of Eric Rohmer . . . Mr. de Botton borrows exuberantly, and well, from his forebears . . . therein lies the buoyant charm of the approach."--Lisa Zeidner, The New York Times Book Review
Product Description
In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, is examined at every stage, supplemented by quizzes and line drawings by the author and commentary by a chorus of great philosophers, from Descartes to Plato to Aretha Franklin. The Romantic Movement will charm readers and lovers alike with wit, insight, and intelligence.
Alain de Botton was born in Switzerland in 1969, educated at Cambridge, and lives in London. He is the author of The Romantic Movement (Picador) and How Proust Can Change Your Life. His first novel, On Love, was published in fifteen countries, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction.
Wrote every aspect of love life, how the couple interacts and what’s the deeper philosophical meaning of it. Love “who makes the effort” section, like a game evolving to two possible equilibria — marr...Wrote every aspect of love life, how the couple interacts and what’s the deeper philosophical meaning of it. Love “who makes the effort” section, like a game evolving to two possible equilibria — marriage or breakup.(展开)
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0 有用 Welfare 2018-09-05 12:15:34
Wrote every aspect of love life, how the couple interacts and what’s the deeper philosophical meaning of it. Love “who makes the effort” section, like a game evolving to two possible equilibria — marr... Wrote every aspect of love life, how the couple interacts and what’s the deeper philosophical meaning of it. Love “who makes the effort” section, like a game evolving to two possible equilibria — marriage or breakup. (展开)
0 有用 lyn 2013-10-03 11:33:44
咖啡店里，一个女孩朗声说道：“我以为他把我当做亲人，和别人都不一样，其他女孩只是玩玩而已。但最后我发现自己只是个备胎。”
1 有用 Dullhouse 2017-12-31 14:41:59
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0 有用 四月蓝莓 2012-12-19 13:18:12
Simply brilliant!
0 有用 愆煞煞 2022-08-24 13:23:08 浙江
8.24 from brinkmanship to kamikaze. ‘It was not art that imitated life but life that imitated art.’ What did Wilde mean by such a puzzling aphorism?