The Other Side of Love: A History of Breakups
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From the medieval tragic impossibility of combining honor and passion to the modern idea of free relationships: Sabine Melchior-Bonnet's book is devoted to the evolution of ideas about love and breakup. The author traces it through the personal stories of famous people: Abelard and Heloise, Napoleon and Josephine, Pushkin and Goncharova, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas, Prince Charles and Princess Diana... are among the protagonists of this book. Their letters and diaries contain testimonies of love and betrayal, quarrels and disappointments, which reflect the ideals and values of different epochs, and the very rupture of relationships becomes the point where duty and feeling, freedom and taboo, intimate and social converge in a tragic conflict. By analyzing these documents, the author demonstrates how perceptions of reputation, honor, happiness, self-actualization, and freedom have changed from the twelfth century to the present. Sabine Melchior-Bonnet is a historian and a specialist in the history of emotions. She worked at the Collège de France and is the author of The History of the Mirror, published by the New Literary Review.
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