Talking to the readers

The appeal of Stendhal's 'on love' is that it is written in a very fact style than fiction and yet interesting. This is a book in which the writer is busy writing to the reader and not lost in the craft of making characters.

His concept of crystallisation is interesting to read on and not very difficult to identify with if you have reached the fifth stage of life successfully.

We all run after happiness, but he questions its definition.

Love in various countries is so strikingly different. Stendhal has brought out that difference clearly.

With such good description on the stages of love, one is left wanting more on 'Remedies Against Love'.

July 31, 2006