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A review by atadasi
End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick
4.0
“For a hundred and fifty years in the West the idea of romantic love has been emblematic of the search for self-understanding.”
in this book, Vivian Gornick ruminates on the authors and literature that reveal that to seek one’s self by seeking love is to lose oneself or, as she writes brilliantly in her essay on Clover Adams, is to become incased in ice, so thick that not even your lover’s passion could melt it. Like much of Gornick’s writing, this book is direct and insightful. She engenders a desire to read and write endlessly, and her focus on writers that maybe don’t always get the spotlight or texts that have something to offer despite lack of general brilliance, make it more enjoyable.
in this book, Vivian Gornick ruminates on the authors and literature that reveal that to seek one’s self by seeking love is to lose oneself or, as she writes brilliantly in her essay on Clover Adams, is to become incased in ice, so thick that not even your lover’s passion could melt it. Like much of Gornick’s writing, this book is direct and insightful. She engenders a desire to read and write endlessly, and her focus on writers that maybe don’t always get the spotlight or texts that have something to offer despite lack of general brilliance, make it more enjoyable.