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Das Liebesbestiarium
Go¨ttingen: Wallstein, 2014
In 750 years, this gem of medieval literature has never been translated into German. At the time, Das Liebesbestiarium [Bestiary of Love, Bestiaire d'amour] marked a literary revolution on a European scale. Richard de Fournival (1201-1260) uses daring images to explore the secret of Eros and finds a new, unprecedented language for love. In his evocation of the woman he adores, he creates a magical love zoo between unicorn and phoenix, swallow and panther, fantastic and real animals. He thus provokes the decisive answer of a self-confident woman - who has remained anonymous - one of the first feminist texts ever. Ralph Dutli also translated this text and added it to Fournival's. "The Bestiary of Love" is a luminous monument in the history of reflections on the possibilities of love between man and woman, on the differences in their desires, on passion and depravity, hope and despair, memory and love death. An amusing, enigmatic, thought-provoking book to marvel at. = [Publisher]
Language: German
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