Alberto Castelli Ordre des livres (chronologique)

This book explores romantic love among straight adults through literary texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter employs a multidisciplinary approach, depicting protagonists who are often mutilated in their pursuit of love as an alternative to annihilation. Love is framed as an obsession and a mental exploration. From the passion-myth of Tristan and Isolde to nihilist modernist representations, the western narrative has cultivated a perverse concept of love—one that often veers towards nothingness and death. Love, characterized by narcissism and destructiveness, is achieved through overcoming obstacles. If love requires obstacles, it becomes an affection for those very challenges. Within this masochistic framework, love, falling in love, and being loved teeter on the edge of pathology. The book narrates a story of loves, evoking a desire that is inherently unfulfilling. It examines the dialectical interplay between presence and absence, creation and destruction, reality and void. The narrative poses questions that have lingered unanswered for two centuries: Does love endure only for the duration of a kiss? Is its promise doomed to dissolve? Is violence—physical, emotional, temporal—an inescapable aspect of love? What mysteries allow some loves to endure without succumbing to the death of desire? This text seeks to address these questions, presenting love as an unconscious process that often overwhelms re

A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life from the vantage point of Screwtape, a senior tempter in the service of "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C. S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging and humorous account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written. Now, for the first time, The Screwtape Letters is presented with its full text alongside helpful annotations provided by Lewis enthusiast and dramatist Paul McCusker. The notes include literary, theological, and biographical information to enhance Lewis's core themes and demystify complex ideas. McCusker also guides readers to concepts and references from the beloved author's other treasured volumes to deepen and enrich this timeless classic. The annotated edition is the ultimate guide for understanding the heavenly truths buried in these epistles from below.