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Author Athanasou, Nikos, 1953- author.

Title The person of the man / Nikos Athanasou.

Publication Info. Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia : Brandl & Schlesinger, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary "Alice is trapped by her misreading of love in a marriage that stifles her passion and independence. The "person" of her husband is driven by ambition ́⁰₃ his own material advantage. With uncompromising rationality Alice analyses the beliefs and actions that underlie their marital relationship. Their drama plays out against a background of Oxford university and village life where Alice comes to realise that love is more easily recognised than understood.""Nikos Athanasou probes into the lives of his characters with forensic skill, revealing how emotional insecurities can trigger dysfunctional philosophies of love." Rhyll McMaster. The Person of the Man is an exploration of love and possession set against the backdrop of university and country life in Oxford. It analyses the pathological marriage between an Oxford academic of Australian origin and his English wife. The basis of this marriage is essentially the universal Hobbesian dictum that "what most people regard as love is really just approval or more precisely the absence of disapproval". When Martin's betrayal and the tragedy that follows reveal the true Person of the Man Alice discovers that love cannot be analysed, it can only be understood.
Subject Marriage -- Fiction.
Australian literature -- 21st century.
FICTION -- General.
Australian literature. (OCoLC)fst00821454
Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Other Form: Print version: Athanasou, Nikos. Person of the man. Blackheath, NSW, Australia : Brandl & Schlesinger, 2012 194 pages ; 23 cm 9781921556074
ISBN 9781921556562 (electronic bk.)
1921556560 (electronic bk.)
9781921556555 (electronic bk.)
1921556552 (electronic bk.)
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