Description
A genre-defying fictional essay in 29 “tangos,” this haunting work traces a marriage from its seductive beginnings through betrayal, dissolution, and the complicated aftermath. With lyrical intensity and intellectual precision, it examines the entanglement of beauty, truth, desire, and deception, drawing on Keats, classical mythology, linguistics, and poetry. The tango becomes both form and metaphor: an intricate dance between love and violence, memory and knowledge, attachment and release. Brilliant, emotionally incisive, and formally daring, the book transforms the anatomy of a failed marriage into a searching meditation on what remains when passion comes undone.
Available Editions
paperback
McClelland & Stewart Ltd
Published Feb 19, 2002
160 pages
ISBN: 9780676974751
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Details
First Published
2001
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson.