Eros the Bittersweet

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson`s exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros `bittersweet.` No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams`s Spring and All and William H. Gass`s On Being Blue. Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.