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A Mania of Love
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A Mania of Love

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Plato proclaims two kinds of mania: one arising from disease, the other from love. Clarence, a bipolar classics professor, conjoins them while on sabbatical on the mystical Greek island of Hydra.

His love affair there with a seductive French waitress becomes pathological when she threatens the professor’s marriage with his beloved wife. To escape her clutches he resorts to a violent solution justified on the ancient noble beliefs of the poet, Archilochus, and the belief of death - life transformations by Asklepeos, the father of psychiatr
The method is macabre, worthy of a tragecomedy, but Clarence, because of his mental condition and classical idealism represses all memory of his heinous deed. It remains for the Inspector from Athens to determine whether Clarence has moral justification or whether he has to pay for his infidelity.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Xlibris
Date
30 November 2015
Pages
156
ISBN
9781514420225

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Plato proclaims two kinds of mania: one arising from disease, the other from love. Clarence, a bipolar classics professor, conjoins them while on sabbatical on the mystical Greek island of Hydra.

His love affair there with a seductive French waitress becomes pathological when she threatens the professor’s marriage with his beloved wife. To escape her clutches he resorts to a violent solution justified on the ancient noble beliefs of the poet, Archilochus, and the belief of death - life transformations by Asklepeos, the father of psychiatr
The method is macabre, worthy of a tragecomedy, but Clarence, because of his mental condition and classical idealism represses all memory of his heinous deed. It remains for the Inspector from Athens to determine whether Clarence has moral justification or whether he has to pay for his infidelity.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Xlibris
Date
30 November 2015
Pages
156
ISBN
9781514420225