![]() Otherwise there is a significant chasm between love on the page and in life, specifically when it comes down to the matter of everlasting vows and commitments. According to De Botton, novels are only of help in the love department to victims of the deeply unfortunate and unrequited kind and even then they’re best used not as an adviser but as a sympathiser characters and readers alike comfort and console each other in a wallowing torture with their hopeless romantic states. Some may argue that may be precisely the point. In a recent article, the author Alain De Botton states that literature’s representations of love are not just slightly dreamy and idealistic visions (indeed, often they can be precisely the opposite) but completely unrealistic, having very little in common with real life relationships. Yet while literature provides us with many various lovers and passions, are the tales of love we read all so far removed from reality? ![]() There are many different aspects of love in the literary form we saw last week one example of a love not dared spoken by the lips of the modern manufacturers of romance flourishing in verse. In literature, love certainly is a big deal. In the romantic aftermath of Valentine’s Day, depending on whether you were pleasantly surprised or painfully let down, you may agree or disagree. Love is a many splendored thing, so they say.
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