内容简介
"Essays in Love" will appeal to anyone who has ever been in arelationship or confused about love. The book charts the progressof a love affair from the first kiss to argument andreconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset ofanxiety and heartbreak. The work's genius lies in the way itminutely analyses emotions we've all felt before but have perhapsnever understood so well: it includes a chapter on the anxieties ofwhen and how to say 'I love you' and another on the challenges ofdisagreeing with someone else's taste in shoes.While gripping thereader with the talent of a great novelist, de Botton brings aphilosopher's sensibility to his analyses of the emotions of love,resulting in a genre-breaking book that is at once touching andthought-provoking. 'The book's success has much to do with itsbeautifully modelled sentences, its wry humour and its unwaveringdeadpan respect for its reader's intelligence ...full of keenobservation and flashes of genuine lyricism, acuity and depth' -Francine Prose, New Republic. 'Witty, funny, sophisticated, neatlytied up, and full of wise and illuminating insights' - P. J.Kavanagh, "Spectator". 'De Botton is a national treasure' - SusanHill. 'I doubt if de Botton has written a dull sentence in hislife' - Jan Morris, "New Statesman". 'Single-handedly, de Bottonhas taken philosophy back to its simplest and most importantpurpose: helping us to live our lives' - "Independent".