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The Blurb On The Back:
The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that declares love with the body of the lover. And the extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one’s beloved announces the demise of love.
In this short book, Massimo Recalcati - one of Italy’s leading intellectuals and bestselling authors - offers seven brief lessons on the mystery and miracle of love, from the serendipity of the first encounter to its end or its continuation over time, as mysterious and miraculous as the fist encounter itself.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst and author who teaches at Pavia and Verona universities. This masculine look at love (translated from Italian by Alice Kilgarriff) draws heavily on Roth, Freud and Lacan and is written in an intellectual, pretentious style that alienated me. However, it is an offshoot from an Italian TV series called Lexicon of Love and I wonder if it would be more accessible with sounds and images to support its points.
THE ENDURING KISS: SEVEN SHORT LESSONS ON LOVE was released in the United Kingdom on 22nd January 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that declares love with the body of the lover. And the extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one’s beloved announces the demise of love.
In this short book, Massimo Recalcati - one of Italy’s leading intellectuals and bestselling authors - offers seven brief lessons on the mystery and miracle of love, from the serendipity of the first encounter to its end or its continuation over time, as mysterious and miraculous as the fist encounter itself.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst and author who teaches at Pavia and Verona universities. This masculine look at love (translated from Italian by Alice Kilgarriff) draws heavily on Roth, Freud and Lacan and is written in an intellectual, pretentious style that alienated me. However, it is an offshoot from an Italian TV series called Lexicon of Love and I wonder if it would be more accessible with sounds and images to support its points.
THE ENDURING KISS: SEVEN SHORT LESSONS ON LOVE was released in the United Kingdom on 22nd January 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
