Books/ essays about desire, romantic desire, human desire, desire as driving force.
I want to know books about desire and what’s behind it. Someone told me that Anne Carson’s books (the Eros one and Autobiography in Red) treat these topic somehow. Any suggestion??
* The short fiction of Carmen Maria Machado. Very feminist and sexually explicit. Some are available free on her website, some are published in the collection Her Body and Other Parties.
* The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. This is a really popular book right now so it’s probably pretty easy to get ahold of a copy.
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If you enjoy a good enemies-to-lovers storyline, ‘The Hating Game’ by Sally Thorne is a book I recommend for its witty banter and electric chemistry between the characters. It’s a delightful and sexy rom-com that will keep you smiling long after you’ve turned the last page.
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A lover’s discourse by Roland Barthes.
It literally dissects love and desire (and how we speak about them) into fragments. The tiniest moments and the biggest emotions, the drama and the mundane, the most intimate and the universal, all explored and analysed in a mix of references to philosophy, semiology, literature and the biographical .
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Here are some:
* The short fiction of Carmen Maria Machado. Very feminist and sexually explicit. Some are available free on her website, some are published in the collection Her Body and Other Parties.
* The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. This is a really popular book right now so it’s probably pretty easy to get ahold of a copy.
If you enjoy a good enemies-to-lovers storyline, ‘The Hating Game’ by Sally Thorne is a book I recommend for its witty banter and electric chemistry between the characters. It’s a delightful and sexy rom-com that will keep you smiling long after you’ve turned the last page.
A lover’s discourse by Roland Barthes.
It literally dissects love and desire (and how we speak about them) into fragments. The tiniest moments and the biggest emotions, the drama and the mundane, the most intimate and the universal, all explored and analysed in a mix of references to philosophy, semiology, literature and the biographical .