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What are your favorite love stories, in any (all) sense(s)?
The deviant ones. Grotesque, frenetic, unrequited, heretical love. Love that stretches across space and time and centuries. Love as obsession, as delusion, as homicide. Like Sarah Kane’s ‘Cleansed’ - “either love me or kill me.” Stories like those, I suppose.
Exempli gratia:
The novels of Patrick McGrathThe plays of Sarah KaneMary Renault’s Alexander trilogyAngela Carter, The Bloody Chamber & Other StoriesAndrew Davidson, The GargoyleDavid Mitchell, Cloud AtlasEmily Brontë, Wuthering HeightsOrhan Pamuk, The Museum of InnocenceElfriede Jelinek, The Piano TeacherMadeline Miller, The Song of AchillesJohn Banville, AthenaLeo Tolstoy, Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer SonataJames Baldwin, Giovanni’s RoomPatricia Highsmith, The Sweet SicknessAndre Aciman, Call Me By Your NameCharlotte Brontë, Jane EyreAnaïs Nin and Henry Miller, Henry and June Poppy Brite, Exquisite CorpseRadclyffe Hall, The Well of LonelinessMarguerite Duras, L'amantKazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the DayGabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of CholeraPatrick Süskind, PerfumeElizabeth Knox, The Vintner’s LuckYukio Mishima, The Frolic of the BeastsRaymond Radiguet, The Devil in the FleshMilan Kundera, L'identitéErnesto Sabato, The Tunnel
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I may never stop missing everyone I’ve ever known
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Spring 2002 Benjamin Cho
taken from sidebysidestore on ig
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