“You must know that love hurts as only love can.” (Wolf Wondratschek) How did famous lovers meet? In a boat on a lonely lake, like Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill, or in an aeroplane just before it crashed, like Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? What tender, crazy and dangerous ideas have occurred to lovers bent on the conquest of their chosen beloved? Love is the endless good fortune of having someone to hug and kiss. Love makes us better people, losing it plunges us into the depths of despair and even drives some people to crime. Love is a shining jewel which gives sparkle to life. Tania Schlie and Katrin Traoré have collected the most famous, romantic and extraordinary love stories from the world of literature, music and art; this is a jewel-case of brilliant vignettes, a book for anyone who has just fallen in love, is unhappy in love, has been abandoned or is searching for great happiness. They met 25 years ago on a course in Paris. Collaborating on this book has confirmed their conviction that love is the greatest of all the emotions.
About the author:
Tania Schlie and Katrin Traoré were both born in 1961 and are married with children. Tania Schlie has written several successful romantic novels, while Katrin Traoré is a journalist and has had love affairs in America, France and Germany. |
