Liv Stromquist
The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV Liv Stromquist

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The Reddest Rose: Romantic Love from the Ancient Greeks to Reality TV

Liv Stromquist

The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models? Her answer -- in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays -- tracks how philosophers and artists, from the Ancient Greeks to Beyoncé, conceptualized romantic love. Strömquist's signature characters, drawn in a flat, blocky style, ask each other questions and offer sharp commentary as they guide readers throughout history and the change in societies' values, from showing love/loving to getting love/being loved. (Poet Hilda H. D. Doolittle -- who was so love-stricken by a man taking off his glasses that she believed they viewed dolphins together in another dimension -- lends the book its title.) Lord Byron, Socrates, Byung-Chul Han, Ezra Pound, Slavoj Zizek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many others have cameos. For the first time in English, in The Reddest Rose, Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive?

184 pages, 184 Illustrations, unspecified

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	January 31, 2023
Original release date	2022
ISBN13	9781683964599
Publishers	Fantagraphics
Pages	184
Dimensions	150 × 220 × 10 mm · 478 g
Language	English
Translator	Bowers, Melissa