The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Str mquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models? Her answer -- in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays -- tracks how philosophers and artists, from the Ancient Greeks to Beyonc , conceptualized romantic love. Str mquist's signature characters, drawn in a flat, blocky style, ask each other questions and offer sharp commentary as they guide readers throughout history and the change in societies' values, from showing love/loving to getting love/being loved. (Poet Hilda H.D. Doolittle -- who was so love-stricken by a man taking off his glasses that she believed they viewed dolphins together in another dimension -- lends the book its title.) Lord Byron, Socrates, Byung-Chul Han, Ezra Pound, Slavoj Zizek,...
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2022-12-12
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Gillar Liv Strömquist, men den här boken var alldeles för faktaspäckad för att jag skulle orka fortsätta efter ungefär halva. Gedigen kunskap och research var inte i första hand vad jag var ute efter.
