We fall in love every day, with others, with ideas, with ourselves. Stories of love excite us and baffle us. This volume is about love and the networked self. It focuses on how love forms, grows, or dissolves. Chapters address how relationships of love develop, are sustained or …
"Peter Stamm's best-selling debut novel, Agnes, now available for the first time in the United States. "Write a story about me," Agnes said to her lover, "so I know that you think of me." So he started to write the story of everything that had happened to them from the moment th…
Aktueller Liebesroman um eine atemberaubende Frau. Im Lesesaal der Stadtbibliothek von Chicago beginnt eine Liebesbeziehung. Phantasie und Wirklichkeit stimmen nicht überein. Ein Schweizer Sachbuchautor lernt bei seinem Aufenthalt in Chicago eine Physikstudentin kennen. Er versu…
This study of Greek and Roman tragedy looks at the theme of children born from the union between gods and humans: by portraying the uncertainty, trauma, and eventual successes of some of these children, tragic poets are able both to investigate the concept of gods and their rela…