This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviors from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using, among others, Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs some 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism in which literary theories are blended with philosophical theories on the self.

A significant contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, philosophy, philosophy of literature, modern fiction, modernism, and postmodernism.

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Alberto Castelli is a writer and a well-established scholar at Hainan University, China. He is known for his extensive work on modernism, postmodern dynamics, and cross-cultural studies. Some of his notable publications include Eros and Thanatos: Love across Civilizations (2023), Love, Beauty or Morality (Springer 2024), A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death: The Metaphysics of Desire (2024), The Labyrinth of Love: A Tale of Latin American Romance (2024), and Romance in the Time of Modernism: A Literature of Silence (2024).