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About earthly and heavenly love

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About earthly and heavenly love
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In his lengthy philosophical essay "On Profane and Celestial Love," the internationally acclaimed Hungarian novelist Péter Nádas explores our inability to speak of love, our inability to find words for what haunts us. In the essay, whose title alludes to Titian's famous painting, analyses of classical myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Plato's dialogues alternate with an analysis of everyday stories, obscene language, and the norms of love prescribed to people in different societies. The discourse, in which the analysis of one question leads to the next, and Teresa of Ávila engages in a conversation with Wittgenstein, concludes with a lecture in which Nádas presents his own concept of love. This text is the work of a novelist masquerading as a philosopher, a kind of inverse parallel to Roland Barthes's "Fragments of a Lover's Speech."
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