Paz, Octavio (1914-1998)

The double flame : love and eroticism / Octavio Paz - 1st ed - New York : A Harvest Book , 1995 - 276 p. ; 19 cm.

In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence.


Translated from the Spanish to English

9780156003650

015307755 Uk


Sex in literature
Love in Literature
Erotic literature

PZ7.D5455 / Mag 2009

809.9335 PAZ