About this title: In "The Double Flame," Paz explores the relationship between sex, eroticism, and love--themes that have been central to his fiction. Beginning with Plato's "Symposium," he provides a short history of love and the erotic in literature: from the influence of the great cities of Alexandria and Rome on the development of love elegy, to the courtly societies of Heian Japan and 12th-century France, and finally to modern novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "Ulysses." It examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, Original Sin to artificial intelligence.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780156003650ISBN:0156003651
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Edition: F First Paperback Edition Used
Binding: S Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780156003650ISBN:0156003651
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall read more
Description: Very Good. 0156003651 some minor dog-earing, crease accross the front cover corner, otherwise in great condition--clean pages, unbroken spine. read more
Description: Fair in Good jacket. Illustrated white wraps. Slight shelfwear to jacket and board edges. Two short closed tears in top jacket edge. Front endpaper cut out. read more
Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company; A Harvest Book, San Diego, CA
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780156003650ISBN:0156003651
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. x, 276 pp.; 19 cm. First published, 1993, under title: Llama doble. Translated from the Spanish. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated "First Harvest edition. " "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 ... read more
Description: Harcourt and Brace, 1995. 276 pages. 1st US printing, 1st edition. Hardcover. New in Near Fine dustjacket. Jacket is very lightly rubbed; price still intact. Book is clean and tight; no names, markings or tears. ISBN: 0151001030. read more
Edition: F First Edition Used
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780151001033ISBN:0151001030
Description: Very Good+ in J Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall read more
Description: Good Plus. To view other titles by this author enter the keywords; XDCX, XJGX, Paz or Sexuality. The book is in G+ condition tight, clean and square. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13:9780151001033ISBN:0151001030
Description: Fine. DJ. 0151001030 First Edition, First Printing. First US Edition. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As New. Unread. NOT marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. NOT faded. NOT a b/c. NOT an XL. PRISTINE. All of our dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective book jacket covers. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1996-06-01
ISBN-13:9780156003650ISBN:0156003651
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780156003650ISBN:0156003651
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace,
Date Published: 1995.
ISBN-13:9780151001033ISBN:0151001030
Description: Tidy ownership marks, else very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / very good plus dust jacket. From the library of Prof. Richard J. Schoeck. read more
"La llama Doble de Octavio Paz es uno de esos libro obligados, de esos que se leen por placer pero que son necesarios, para mi es parte de mis conceptos pues escribo mucho sobre erotismo es un toque en mi poética, esta interesantisímo y como siempre es uno de esos densos pero deliciosos ensayos de Octavio Paz"
"It guide me through the history of "our share of paradise", as Paz liked to call love. Sex, eroticism, and love all together: sex the original fire, raises the red flame of eroticism giving place and feeding the tremulous and blue flame of love..."
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