num_pages: 80
description: In ON LOVE AND DEATH, Patrick Suskind reveals the hidden source of his mesmerizing an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death. In this witty and thought-provoking meditation on the two elemental forces of human existence, he brilliantly draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex in a traffic jam, as literary as Thomas Mann's discovery of forbidden love at an advanced age, and as mythical as the stories of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus.
language: English
title: On Love and Death
titlecomplete: On Love and Death
genres: Germany, Essays, Philosophy, Death, 21st Century, Love, Literature, European Literature, German Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2250
publisher: Overlook / Rookery Trade Paperback