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Provides an illuminating explanation of the origins and meaning of romantic love and shows how a proper understanding of its psychological dynamics can revitalize our most important relationships.
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Life changing.......2007-10-01
I knew before I read this book that it was going to share wisdom not only for my entire lifetime but a priceless piece of information and knowledge that I needed just at that time to help me understand and live through an excruciatingly painful chapter in my life and move forward with new insight and unimaginable growth. I think this book should be a mandatory piece of the western education tool kit for living a fulfilled and abundant life lived with true purpose. Nice job.....I'm eternaly grateful.
We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love.......2007-05-27
This book is for anyone truly ready to enter a relationship with a clear open mind and heart. In this time when intimate relationships cannot find their way, endless divorces, embittered men and woman, frustrated couples... this book will lead the way to the new paradigm of relationship. I highly recommend it.
Cutting Through Romantic Materialism.......2006-10-12
In this companion volume to Johnson's "He" & "She" books, he analyzes a medieval story (similar to Marie-Louise von Franz & Allan Chinen) in terms of Jungian psychology--but pursuing p. 195: "The task of salvaging love from the swamp of romance." He describes Western misinterpretation & overemphasis on being in love & its projection of the inner human soul (p. 63: "animus is the soul in woman just as anima is the soul in man") onto an external person--leading to later disaster. Interestingly, it closely parallels Trungpa's "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" that I read in parallel. I think Trungpa would agree with Johnson that: p. 32: "Many Western people, caught up in misunderstanding of Eastern religions or philosophy, make an ideal of getting rid of the ego. We need to understand that the ego is absolutely necessary; it has a vital role to play in the drama of evolving consciousness" & Johnson (p. 151) provides an enlightening, extraordinary definition of ego "death." Also, they both address the illusions/delusions of incorrect assumptions/preconceptions & the materialization of spiritual matters. Johnson's concluding chapters (an American Indian legend, a dream, & an analysis contrasting romantic love, human love, & friendship) rounded out his view since earlier chapters seemed a bit over-the-top via overgeneralization, over intellectualization (too much Thinker vs. Feeler), & a religious view of romance & spirituality (vs. Jungian individuation, balance, & integration). I'm uneasy with Johnson's "love the one you're with" (p. 129) philosophy & his praise of Eastern marriage. While he demonstrates how romantic love is egocentric vs. altruistic human love, he deemphasizes this in his story analysis. It seems to me that Tristan was a puer (Peter Pan) archetypal hero--not an adult. Much of what Johnson vilifies as romance could be attributed to narcissism instead--could romantic love merely be an implementation of narcissism? Further, archetypes form complexes by combining with human experience; thus, anima & animus are complexes as well as archetypes. An adult could apply archetypal spiritual love to a real person to form a (human) love complex. Thus, rather than an Eastern contractual marriage or Western falling-in-love, one could follow the Middle Way of human love, balancing one's inner & outer worlds without sacrificing personal affinity. Johnson seems to imply this without explicating it. He performs a most valuable service by exposing idealized romantic falling-in-love & facilitating modern understanding of human love & commitment in a society with a dearth of both.
Understanding is a first step, and almost half way!.......2006-05-08
If you are a man, and you are deeply suffering because either you are in love, or because you feel you are loosing one, this book is worth a hundred psycho-therapy sessions. It is very likely that it will help you to understand yourself, and therefore you would become much more likely to take control, or at least, to feel wide relief associated to deep understanding!
Excellent book about love!.......2005-11-08
It gives a great perspective as to how we humans experience love. It also gives a good explanation of what is the difference between romatic love and, true and mature love. It talks about expectations, desires, passion, commitment, fears, etc. It helped me to understand why my love parners acted the way they did in our relationships, as well as why I kept fighting for those unfruitful relationships. ¡Trully interesting!
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This immortal tale concerns the doomed love between a knight and a princess. The heroic Tristan, nephew and champion of King Mark of Cornwall, journeys to Ireland to bring home his uncle's betrothed, the fair Iseult. Their shipboard voyage takes a tumultuous turn with a misunderstanding and a magic potion, and the lovers quickly find that there's no turning back.
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Great Read........2007-05-07
I find The Romance of Tristan and Iseult a good read for anyone interested in Medieval literature, or romance; or both for that matter. It's well ahead of its time in that it is a story of two lovers forced apart by circumstance and whose love affects others around them as well as themselves, centuries before Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. There is only one downside I can see, though. It is the lack of description of battles in the story; the author doesn't tell much about the fights or what happens in them, only that they occured. But all in all an endearing story.
Romance.......2006-03-15
A fairy tale, mideavel romance with a dragon, a giant, love potion, murder, deciet, love, loyalty, honor, etc. This translation is beautiful. It reads like butter.
Ancient Tale well told........2006-02-17
The story of Tristan and Iseult (or Isolde) is well known through Wagner's famous opera, but this is the real tale. It isn't embellished, but instead it tells the complete tale clearly and succinctly in a manner reminiscent of the older manuscripts like Beowulf. The story (unlike the current film) does include the magic potion, a typical device of the older legends. The heart-breaking ending may be clear even in the third or fourth chapter, but getting there is a major trip to treasure. To those familiar with Wagner's names, there are some variant spellings, but they don't amount to much. Kurvenal is Gorvenal for example. A most enjoyable book.
A timeless legend.......2005-12-20
In the Arthurian Legend of Tristan and Iseult (alternatively Isolde, Yseult, Isode, Isotta, etc.), there are actually two Iseults involved with him. The first is called Iseult of Ireland, daughter of King Anguish of Ireland. She loves Tristan deeply but had been promised to King Mark of Cornwall, Tristan's uncle. The second Iseult was the daughter of Hoel of Brittany and sister of Sir Kahedin. She is called Iseult of the White Hands and is the one Tristan ended up marrying, though Tristan did not love her. When Tristan is mortally wounded, he calls for Iseult of Ireland in the hopes that she might be able to heal him. When her ship arrives, Tristan asks his wife what color the sails were (white meaning she would come, black meaning she wouldn't). The sails were white, yet Iseult of the White Hands, resentful of his love for the other Iseult, lied and Tristan passed away. When Iseult of Ireland arrives to discover her lover has died, she dies of grief next to him.
Iseult was also the name given to Tristan's grand-daughter in some versions of the legend.
She is a main character in the Tristan poems of Béroul, Thomas of Britain, and Gottfried von Strassburg. In it, she is first seen as a young princess tutored by Tristan in music and many other arts. Later, when he goes back to Ireland to win her for his uncle King Mark of Cornwall, she becomes more important because she has grown up and become more beautiful and smart. She is supposed to marry an evil steward who pretends that he has killed a dragon that Tristan killed. She eventually does not have to marry the steward byt King Mark and she embarks on a journey with Tristan to Cornwall. On the journey, she and Tristan accidentally drink a love potion Isolde's mother, also Isolde, prepared for her and Mark and was guarded by Brangane. They fall in love with no time limit on the spell.
In this work, Isolde is not that great. She is deceitful and not so nice to Brangane who is nothing but loyal to her. She sends Brangane out into the forest to be killed and when Brangane proves loyal even in the face of death, she calls her back and apologizes. She gets away with sleeping with Tristan for a long time until finally Brangane lets the proverbial cat out of the bag. She dies in despair that Tristan has died.
A Keeper.......2003-12-30
I had to read this for a history class and thought I woult dread it, but it is a very nice love story - way better than Romeo and Juliet, and did reflect the changing view of romantic love in literature of the time. I will be keeping it in my library instead of selling it back to the bookstore - and that says a lot!
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Tristan defeats Ireland's greatest warrior and gains the friendship of his uncle, the King of Cornwall, who entrusts him with a very special mission: to sail the seas in search of a queen.
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
It is not too often that you would run across two women called Iseult.
That, however, is what Tristan does. This is further complicated by the
fact that both want him, and because of political obligations he can
realistically never have either.
He does want to whack stuff with swords, as well, so none of this ends up happily.
Excellent Love Story.......2001-08-30
Tristan and Iseult is one of the best books I have ever read. And the way Sutcliff tells the story is supurb. I highly recomend it.
A Tristan for Children and Teenages.......2001-08-20
Tristan is a Celtic legend dating from the fifth century and probably told around peat fires until written down by Thomas of Brittany circa 1160. Subsequently this ancient tale received medieval dress as the troubadours enriched it and placed it in turreted castles in which it is generally set. Subsequent authors have all tampered with the tale, adjusting it to suit their needs. Sutcliff has done the same by simplifying and shortening and leaving out the love potion aas the explanation of why Tristan and Iseult fall in love. Her version is a concise pellet of information and story I presume designed for children and teenagers for whom it is well suited. Those of you who like your Tristan straight up should read The Romance of Tristan in the Curtis translation or Beroul's masterpiece The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Bedier. Those who wish to read a truly zany version might take a look at The Romance of Tristan and Iseult: Modern Version (the one I like the best) wherein the lovers communicate by fax machines and portable phones.
a wonderful love story, retold.......2001-06-12
this was an excellent read, just for your spare time. This is a young adult book, which is very exciting to me, and my book group, to whom i read it with. I do fell as though this author was a little childish, for example: sometimes she didn't go into great detail about a subject; she just moved on to the next part of the story. Overall, this is one of my favorite books. I definitly recomend this book to all who have read my review here, and thank you for taking time to read this.
CELTIC ETERNAL TRIANGLE.......1999-02-09
This Brittanic hero, beloved of two beautiful young women named Iseult, emerges as a valiant youth and amazing champion, despite the added medieval trappings of later versions. The star-crossed lovers are destined to love only each other, yet to be wed to other partners for the sake of Honor--critical to the code of celtic chivalry. Torn between his home in Lothian (Scotland), his heart in Cornwall, and his duty in Brittany, young Tristan craves action, adventure and far-flung fame. Further complicating the plot, he wins Iseult in fair combat, yet may not claim her for himself. Too late he discovers that the core of his being is pledged to this red-haired princess, the bride for his liege lord, the King.
This ageless story of ill-fated romance speaks to us across the centuries, thanks to Sutcliff's superb linguistic tapestry; she weaves revealing understatement with gracious descriptions of both terrestrial and maritime settings. No need has she for the famous love potion, taken as a remedy for sea sickness by King Marc's loyal vassal. Tristan's "crime" is all the more heinous because in ancient literature the most sacred human relationship is not the father-son, but the uncle-nephew; thus to betray one's uncle (or 2nd father)is unthinkable.
Tristan and Iseult's anguished lives and broken hearts are the result of their own actions and unbridled emotions, not a brew consumed in error. Tristan may roam the celtic world all his life, but he can never pluck her image from his noble heart. Only the reader may judge which of the two damsels--Iseult of Cornwall or Iseult of the White Hands--loves him more. Or does his greater injury. This edition could be slightly improved if it included a map of his journeys, since most Americans are not that familiar with Brittanic geography. But the tale is timeless, the narrative exquisite and their love survives beyond the grave. For adult readers of all ages.
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They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west -- unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them . . .
Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the late eighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence.
"A tour de force . . . Spectacular." -- Time
"Updike's novel, as tender as it is erotic, becomes a magnificently wrought love story . . . . Beautifully written." -- Detroit Free Press
From the Paperback edition.
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Magical - for a while.......2007-02-10
This is John Updike's retelling of the Tristan and Iseult story, set in exotic Brazil and minus the love potion. Tristao and Isabel fall in love at first sight on the sex-drenched beach of Copacabana. They escape into the jungle as her father attempts to separate them; he is successful and they end up living separate, middle-class lives - until Tristao dies, which brings Isabel to him again. The first half of the novel is excellent: Updike is very comfortable with the adolescent nature of his two main characters, and he captures their spirit well. Once they get into the jungle, however, and become prisoners of Isabel's father's henchmen, the book loses some of the magic it so easily exhibited before. An admirer of Updike's work in general, I place this novel among his lesser works - no where near his worst, but far from his best as well.
Apocalypto.......2006-12-15
I've read a number of Updike's books and I can honestly say this is the worst I've read. This has to be one of the worst books I've ever read, period. It's only made worse by the author's stellar track record otherwise.
For a story that's supposed to be a retelling of "Tristan and Isolde"--a precursor to "Romeo and Juliet"--this book is as romantic as a night at a strip club and as tragic as wearing two different socks. From my count Isabel fathers 5 children whose father is most likely NOT Tristao. That tells you all you need to know about the romance. As for the tragedy, both characters had less personality than a Brazil nut, so why should I care? By page 200 I'd have killed one of them myself if it meant an end to this horrible book.
Here's a summary of the plot: Tristao is black. Isabel is white. They meet on a beach in Rio. They go back to her uncle's place so she can lose her virginity. Over the next few months they have sex a bunch more times. When her father gets upset about their relationship, they run off to Sao Paolo and have lots more sex on a sort of honeymoon. She's captured by hired goons and he spends two years making Volkswagen Beetles until he rescues her and they go off into the wilderness where he becomes a gold miner and she proceeds to have sex with anyone who will pay--and in the process fathers the first two children who are likely not Tristao's. He finds a big gold nugget that brings heat down on them so they flee into the jungle. (Here the story really begins to go off the rails.) Their two children are taken away by hostile natives and never seen again. Then Tristao and Isabel are captured by some kind of warrior-missionaries and Tristao is enslaved to make canoes while Isabel becomes the head warrior-missionary's third wife. She gives birth to her new husband's child--who is mentally challenged--while having relations with the guy's second wife all while Tristao continues to toil away for the next three years. She finally goes to see a shaman so she can free Tristao by switching races with him. So now she is black and he is white. They head back towards civilization, having a lot of kinky sex on the way. Eventually they return to her father in Brasilia, who seems to convince himself that his daughter just got a really great tan in the jungle. Tristao becomes a middle-manager in a textile factory. Isabel becomes a docile wife, giving birth to the one child who might be Tristao's. Then she grows bored and has a fling with a tennis instructor, giving birth to twins who are definitely not Tristao's. (He maybe has a few flings of his own in the meantime.) And then after a dozen years one of them goes on a walk and dies. The end.
That's what the story is, more or less. You talk about the societal issues and allegories and whatnot, but what I described above is the actual content of the story. It's not about love; it's about SEX. These two people are faithful to each other only until someone else walks by. It's not tragic, unless you think (like I do) how much better off these two would have been never having met. The plot itself becomes ridiculous and the last 50 pages tedious.
I am actually feeling in quite a funk now as I write this. This book surpasses disappointment to a level of utter revulsion. You can say I'm a prude or a simpleton, that I don't GET it, in which case we'll have to agree to disagree. I have no use for this book and I deeply regret wasting time to read about two people for whom I have nothing but contempt. If this is any kind of portrait of the human spirit...it's better not to contemplate that thought.
0 Stars if I Could..........2006-10-10
As many of the other reviewers have already stated, this is a terrible book by a writer we have come to expect much more from. As I read through this novel, I felt myself hoping that I would hurry up and finish it, it was so awful. The story of Tristao and Isabel is unconvincing and comes across as a poor attempt to write a novel that many others have already done, much more successfully. The attempt to venture into magical realism is a complete and utter failure. The only strength of the novel lies with the depictions of poverty in Rio and at the mining camp the two lovers escape to. I dislike this novel so much that I wonder if I can write anything coherent about it. Suffice it to say that you should pass on this book and hope that Updike never attempts something like this again.
just awful..........2006-08-17
i was hoping to be whisked away on a garcia marquez-type fantasy journey, but instead i got some simplistic and idealistic brasil from some old timer. blech.
Meh.......2006-05-26
I'll start by saying something positive. This book is beautifully written. The language in the prose is very vivid and poetic. However, what this book is really lacking in is the storytelling, the drama. Nothing that I've read in this book has been moving at all to the point where it pierced me inside. The narrative was predictible and never created any kind of a progression of moods. There were random and often times irrelevent descriptions of things like love making and scenery that were overly verbose and indulgent at the expense of the narrative. When a chapter is named "The Nugget" after about ten pages establishing that Tristao and Isabela have moved to a mining area to look for gold and are enduring fruitless hardships, it kind of destroys the suspense. This is a prime example of the widely known saying "less is more."
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A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth- century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film.
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It is love that the human soul and spirit have searched for throughout the ages. What did people feel and sing and express about love four thousand years ago? Did they know more than we do? What are loves secrets and mysteries?
The great love stories of the ancient and medieval world have been gathered together in one collection for the first time in The First Love Stories. Author, folklorist, and storyteller Diane Wolkstein has worked for fourteen years preparing these myths for publication. Some have never before appeared in complete form; others have been newly translated from primary sources. Through the alchemy of the storytellers art, Wolkstein has rendered these myths accessible and compelling for us today.
The earliest stories in The First Love Stories go back to 2500 B.C. They are joyous, shocking, ribald, humorous, and mysterious testaments to both the passion and the compassion in the human spirit. Each story expresses a different aspect of love: Isis and Osiris (Egyptian) embodies love that is stronger than the forces of nature; Inanna and Dumuzi (Sumerian) explores the cyclical qualities of love; Shiva and Sati (Hindu) portrays the explosion of passion and the taming of the mind; The Song of Songs (Hebrew) suggests the sensuous, celebratory, yearning quality of love; Psyche and Eros (Greco-Roman) presents the forging of the psyche; Layla and Majnun (Arabic-Persian) reveals the path of the soul; and Tristan and Iseult (Celtic) expresses the struggle of inner and outer loyalty.
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We Should All Be This Lucky.......2006-07-18
First and Only Loves .... read this and you will want to stay single rather than be with nothing less than your true life mate love! WOW ... powerful archetypes for the kind of connection we all deserve in our primary relationship.
More than Mortal Attraction.......2003-07-10
"Let me not be cured of love, but let my passion grow! Make my love a hundred times greater than it is today! And let me love for love's sake!"
"The First Love Stories" are beautiful, humorous and mysterious stories that go all the way back to 2500 B.C. Each story presents a different aspect of love.
The Stories include:
Isis and Osiris (Egyptian)
Inanna and Dumzi (Sumerian)
Shiva and Sati (Hindu)
The Song of Songs (Hebrew)
Psyche and Eros (Greco-Roman)
Layla and Majnun (Arabic-Persian)
Tristan and Iseult (Celtic-European)
In "Isis and Osiris" we find love that is stronger than the forces of nature and the sunboat of a million years. In "Shiva and Sati" we find out how to tame the mind and the eternal dance of the universe. "The Songs of Songs" is a Hebrew celebration of the sensuous where lovers want to run to one another and run away. In "Layla and Majnum" we find the path of the soul and loving for love's sake. The struggle for loyalty is expressed in the story of "Tristan and Iseult."
Diane read these stories to adults by candlelight. How amazing it would be to have someone read you these stories in a theatre by candlelight!
Each story will affect you differently. During some of the writing, Diane herself underwent a transformation. As she worked on "Layla and Majnn" she was going through a period of her own personal grief and sadness and somehow working on the story helped to ease her own pain. She was nourished, inspired and comforted by these mysterious stories.
A Glossary is included to explain words like "Ankh" or "ka." The Folklore notes at the end of the book are helpful for understanding the stories. For example, Diane explains how there is not extant Egyptian text called "Isis and Osiris." She composed the story by choosing selections from Egyptian and Greek texts. Her story of "Inanna and Dumuzi" is based on Sumerian love song, poems and stories. "Psyche and Eros" is a retelling of the story based on Philip Shutz's literal translation from the Latin of Apuleius' fairy tale. She uses the word "eros" instead of "amor" because it has a more evocative quality.
I can recommend this book to anyone who enjoys mythology or love stories.
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Lazy Stories
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The Magic Wings
White Wave
The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales
Love through the ages.......2002-05-30
Diane Wolkstein is a consumate storyteller. I only wish I could hear her read/tell these stories aloud. In this book, she brings to life lovers who have been gone for millennia! The Song of Songs has never sounded so alive and passionate. You search with Isis and pine with Iseult. Read these stories, then do yourself the favor of reading them out loud (to yourself or to anyone who'll listen)
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