Eric Rohmer (Games of Love, Chance, and Expression)

Author: (French) Michelle César
Translator: Li Shengfeng
France/France
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: When he connects the behavior of his contemporaries to archetypes and cultural myths, when he analyzes our hidden motivations—mediation and narcissism—through the gap between discourse and behavior, through what may manifest as play, avoidance, or gambling, Houellebecq interprets their behavior as an revealing factor of an "ontological disease," a more metaphysical topic than people might think. What is questioned is not love, but the very discourse and behavior that drive these loves.