Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books
of all time
A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's
exploration of the concept of eros in both classical philosophy and
literature. Beginning with, It was Sappho who first called eros
'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her, Carson examines
her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation
in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and
William H. Gass's On Being Blue.
Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an
utterly original book.