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The Labyrinth of Tender Force

166 Love Stories

Collects 166 of Alexander Kluge’s love stories previously concealed among his vast library of more than 2,000 texts.

The latest offering from one of the greatest living German writers, The Labyrinth of Tender Force masterfully explores the greatest peaks and the most dreadful crevasses of passionate love through an inspired combination of Kluge’s vignettes with drawings, photographs, and other archival material culled from diverse sources. Organized thematically, these stories take readers on a flight over the maps—the varied topography—of love. This flight ends on a high plateau, at the heart of the most beautiful romances and a cardinal text of modernity about the economy of relationships: Madame de La Fayette’s The Princess of Cleves.
 

576 pages | 50 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2018

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