Love and Friendship
豆瓣
Allan Bloom
简介
This book is intended for the use of those who can still be charmed by books and who have an irreducible interest in the depiction of love. Such persons use books for pleasure and instruction. Books about love inform and elevate the fantasy life of their readers and actually become part of their eros while teaching them about it...The best books not only help us to describe the phenomena, but help us to experience them. They are living expressions of profound experiences...In itself and immediately this transports us out of our dreary times. I hope that by this book I may touch at least a few potential friends who can love literature in spite of the false doctors who try to cure them of it.
contents
Introduction: The Fall of Eros
Part One / Rousseau and the Romantic Project
1. Rousseau
2. Stendhal, The Red and the Black
3. Austen, Pride and Prejudice
4. Flaubert, Madame Bovary
5. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
6. Conclusion
Part Two / Shkespeare and Nature
Introduction
7. Romeo and Juliet
8. Antony and Clepatra
9. Measure for Measure
10. Troilus and Cressida
11. The Winter's Tale
12. Conclusion
Interlude on Two Strange Couples:
Hal and Falstaff, Montaigne and La Boetie
Part Three / The Ladder of Love
Epilogue
Notes
Index
