Essays in Love (A Novel)
Author: Alain de Botton
Translator: Youngmok Jeong
Publisher: Chungmirae
278 pages | 207*143mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Two words on the cover ("a novel") are the only hint that this unusual
first book is fiction and not autobiography. The unnamed narrator is a London
architect who becomes involved with Chloe, a graphic designer. After about a
year, Chloe leaves him for an office-mate, and, as a result, the narrator tries
(unsuccessfully) to kill himself. Eventually he gets over Chloe and falls in
love with someone else. The novel's action is minimal; the balance of the book
is given over to the narrator's obsessive analysis of his relationship with
Chloe. (There are diagrams--such as the seating chart of the Boeing 767 where
they met--that are meant to illustrate various ideas with which the narrator
toys.) The book was likely intended as a Barthesian look at that peculiar heart
condition called love, but the overblown and pretentious writing obliterates any
comparison, peppered as it is with such winking turns-of-phrase as "cartographic
fascism." The author is clearly intelligent and well- read; perhaps some day he
will put those assets to good literary use.
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