Reading path
Eros
Not love in the abstract but desire in the body. The Song of Songs writing the lover's body in fruit and spice, Sappho's slender flame under the skin, Phèdre confessing what cannot be confessed, Aschenbach in Venice, Giovanni's room. These are the books where the appetite becomes the plot, where the borders move (queer, illicit, age-crossed, marriage-ending), and the language has to invent itself to keep up. Three thousand years of literature's most dangerous subject.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. Song of SongsAnonymous, 900 BCE
- 2. Fragment 31Sappho, 600 BCE
- 3. The SymposiumPlato, 385 BCE
- 4. Antony and CleopatraWilliam Shakespeare, 1607
- 5. PhèdreJean Racine, 1677
- 6. The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774
- 7. Dangerous LiaisonsPierre Choderlos de Laclos, 1782
- 8. Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert, 1857
- 9. Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, 1877
- 10. The AwakeningKate Chopin, 1899
- 11. Death in VeniceThomas Mann, 1912
- 12. Lady Chatterley's LoverD.H. Lawrence, 1928
- 13. LolitaVladimir Nabokov, 1955
- 14. Giovanni's RoomJames Baldwin, 1956
- 15. A Lover's DiscourseRoland Barthes, 1977
- 16. The LoverMarguerite Duras, 1984
- 17. Celestina Or The Tragic-Comedy Of Calisto And MelibeaFernando de Rojas, 1499
- 18. History of My LifeGiacomo Casanova, 1822
- 19. CrashJ.G. Ballard, 1973
- 20. The ImmoralistAndré Gide, 1902
- 21. Another CountryJames Baldwin, 1962
- 22. Love Songs of Ancient EgyptUnknown, 1300 BCE
- 23. CarmillaSheridan Le Fanu, 1872
- 24. Venus in FursLeopold Von Sacher-Masoch, 1870
- 25. HippolytusEuripides, 428 BCE