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F. Gonzalez-Crussi

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9780151699667: On the nature of things erotic
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ISBN 10: 0151699666 ISBN 13: 9780151699667
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988

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On the Nature of Things EroticAuthor: F. Gonzalez-CrussiTitle: On the Nature of Things EroticPublication: Harcourt Brace JovanovichEdition: FIRST EDITIONDescription: First Edition, First Printing. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with spotting on pages and toning. Dust jacket is very good with toning and shelf/edgewear.Seller ID: 470543Subject: Essays

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Many readers surely will identify with this physician-essayist's lament that the modern woman is too dependent on facial makeup and men's opinions of her. But when he argues that women still represent an embodiment of the life force, at once redeeming and dangerous, he seems to endorse an old-fashioned biological view of female destiny. Turning to men, Gonzalez-Crussi (Notes of an Anatomist) links their need to dominate and devalue women to the Greeks' elevation of homosexuality and the medieval church's antifeminism. One essay offers a perceptive diagnosis of male jealousy, another reassesses the Marquis de Sade as a taxonomist of cruelty. Topics dissected in the eight erudite essays gathered here include lovers' need for secrecy, a Chinese novelist's clinical account of seduction and the concept of romantic passion as a feverish illness. First serial to the New York Times Book Review.
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Gonzalez-Crussi writes elegant, ruminative essays grounded in both medicine and the humanities. In Notes of an Anatomist (HBJ, 1985) he dissected the human body; here he examines the heart with results nearly as intriguing. Of the eight pieces in this collection, the best are "The Divine Marquis," a defense of Sade, and "On Male Jealousy," a fascinating study of the Spanish concept of honra . Gonzalez-Crussi writes most eloquently on subjects distant in time or space; when he treats the familiar, as in the latter section of "Some Views on Women, Past and Present," he turns trite and predictable. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries. Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0151699666
ISBN 13 
9780151699667
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256
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