Love
Love in the Books
Troubadours, Austen on money, Tolstoy on consequence, and a man who waited fifty-one years
Capellanus · Austen · Tolstoy · García Márquez · 4 chapters · 11 min read
Troubadours who invented longing, Austen on money, Tolstoy on consequence, and a man who waited fifty-one years.
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Four writers who disagreed about what it is
- 01The Twelfth Century Invents LongingOn a convention built so that the lovers can never arrive.
- 02Austen Does the ArithmeticOn the novelist everyone calls romantic, who counted the money on every page.
- 03Tolstoy Counts the CostOn two marriages in one novel, and who pays for an affair.
- 04Fifty-One Years, Nine Months and Four DaysOn the greatest love story ever written, or a man who never looked at her.