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\nopinion<\/a>
\nareas of interest<\/a>
\ncritical reaction<\/a>
\nwhere to purchase<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nI prefer to love above all else, I depend on it not to be who I am but who I want to be, to dream about another, to drift away, to navigate the high seas without rudder, forgetting the ground where I actually tread.<\/p>\n
\nsynopsis<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nIn O que \u00e9 o amor?<\/em><\/strong>, Betty Milan seeks to answer the question in the title. She focuses on the passion of love, analyzing this contradictory feeling that insensitively turns into hate. She examines in details the speech of love \u2013 from I love you<\/em> to you drive me mad<\/em> and even it\u2019s your fault<\/em> \u2013 and shows how disillusion can be born of illusion.<\/p>\nFinally, she contraposes the passion of love and the passion for play, which is love Brazilian style, the best example of which is found in Mario de Andrade\u2019s novel Macuna\u00edma<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nhistory<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nIt was published by Brasiliense in 1983, under the title O que \u00e9 amor<\/em>, and had various subsequent editions in the pocket format of the Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Primeiros Passos, with the definitive edition in 1999, when the book was revised and published by Record, now renamed O que \u00e9 o amor?<\/em><\/strong> The chapter \u201cLove Talk [\u201cDizeres\u201d] was adapted for the theater<\/strong><\/a> in 1994, under the title Paix\u00e3o<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em>The play, interpreted by Nathalia Timberg in almost every state in Brazil, was also issued on audio (CD)<\/strong><\/a>. The same “Dizeres” chapter led to an exhibition<\/a>of phrases, with art by the architect, designer and plastic artist Augusto Livio Malzoni, which circulated through public libraries in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo: in Aparecida (July 15 to 31, 1994), Lavrinhas (August 1 to 15, 1994), Paraibuna (August 16 to 31, 1994), Taubat\u00e9 (September 1 to 15, 1994), Lorena (October 16 to 31, 1994), Cachoeira Paulista (November 1 to 15, 1994), Ubatuba (November 16 to 30, 1994), Caraguatatuba (November 1 to 15, 1994), S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o (December 16 to 31, 1994), Jacare\u00ed (January 1 to 15, 1995).<\/p>\n
\nopinion<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nBRASIL<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cTo love, is above all else, to experience the impossibility of total union and, even after recognizing failure, to continue to love Love. There is no love without passion. And Betty Milan is interested in passion.\u201d
\nG\u00e9rard Lebrun<\/strong>, Jornal da Tarde<\/em>, July 2, 1983 <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cBetty Milan invents an amorous discourse \u2026 like Scheherazade, she tells stories.\u201d
\nNeide Archanjo<\/strong>, dust jacket of the book, 1991 <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cTo the author it is not a matter of proposing one or another objective definition of love but one of assuming, in her book, the very logic of amorous passion.\u201d
\n\u00a0<\/strong>Michel Lahud<\/strong>, Folha de S. Paulo<\/em>, August 21, 1983<\/span><\/p>\nPORTUGAL<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cI read O que \u00e9 o amor?<\/strong><\/em> with intellectual pleasure and gain.\u201d
\nEduardo Prado Coelho<\/strong>, letter, January 15, 1984<\/p>\n
\nareas of interest<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nLiterature, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, because of the counterpoint between the love of love and the love of play.<\/p>\n
\ncritical reaction<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n(see Portuguese version)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nwhere to purchase<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
In O que \u00e9 o amor?<\/em><\/strong>, Betty Milan seeks to answer the question in the title. She focuses on the passion of love, analyzing this contradictory feeling that insensitively turns into hate. She examines in details the speech of love \u2013 from I love you<\/em> to you drive me mad<\/em> and even it\u2019s your fault<\/em> \u2013 and shows how disillusion can be born of illusion.<\/p>\n Finally, she contraposes the passion of love and the passion for play, which is love Brazilian style, the best example of which is found in Mario de Andrade\u2019s novel Macuna\u00edma<\/em>.<\/p>\n It was published by Brasiliense in 1983, under the title O que \u00e9 amor<\/em>, and had various subsequent editions in the pocket format of the Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Primeiros Passos, with the definitive edition in 1999, when the book was revised and published by Record, now renamed O que \u00e9 o amor?<\/em><\/strong> The chapter \u201cLove Talk [\u201cDizeres\u201d] was adapted for the theater<\/strong><\/a> in 1994, under the title Paix\u00e3o<\/em><\/strong>. <\/em>The play, interpreted by Nathalia Timberg in almost every state in Brazil, was also issued on audio (CD)<\/strong><\/a>. The same “Dizeres” chapter led to an exhibition<\/a>of phrases, with art by the architect, designer and plastic artist Augusto Livio Malzoni, which circulated through public libraries in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo: in Aparecida (July 15 to 31, 1994), Lavrinhas (August 1 to 15, 1994), Paraibuna (August 16 to 31, 1994), Taubat\u00e9 (September 1 to 15, 1994), Lorena (October 16 to 31, 1994), Cachoeira Paulista (November 1 to 15, 1994), Ubatuba (November 16 to 30, 1994), Caraguatatuba (November 1 to 15, 1994), S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o (December 16 to 31, 1994), Jacare\u00ed (January 1 to 15, 1995).<\/p>\n BRASIL<\/em><\/strong> \u201cBetty Milan invents an amorous discourse \u2026 like Scheherazade, she tells stories.\u201d \u201cTo the author it is not a matter of proposing one or another objective definition of love but one of assuming, in her book, the very logic of amorous passion.\u201d PORTUGAL<\/em><\/strong> Literature, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, because of the counterpoint between the love of love and the love of play.<\/p>\n (see Portuguese version)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nhistory<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nopinion<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\u201cTo love, is above all else, to experience the impossibility of total union and, even after recognizing failure, to continue to love Love. There is no love without passion. And Betty Milan is interested in passion.\u201d
\nG\u00e9rard Lebrun<\/strong>, Jornal da Tarde<\/em>, July 2, 1983 <\/span><\/p>\n
\nNeide Archanjo<\/strong>, dust jacket of the book, 1991 <\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0<\/strong>Michel Lahud<\/strong>, Folha de S. Paulo<\/em>, August 21, 1983<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cI read O que \u00e9 o amor?<\/strong><\/em> with intellectual pleasure and gain.\u201d
\nEduardo Prado Coelho<\/strong>, letter, January 15, 1984<\/p>\n
\nareas of interest<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\ncritical reaction<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nwhere to purchase<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n