"The Moon in Its Flight" by Gilbert Sorrentino

Note: This essay is written by a new guest blogger, Therese Säde, Stockholm, Sweden.

An Unconventionally Conventional Love Story

In the introduction to the short story collection My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead, Jeffrey Eugenides argues that love stories give love a bad name. In support, he recounts the story of the Latin poet Catullus and the poems he wrote for Lesbia. Eugenides is particularly interested in Lesbia's sparrow. The love of the sparrow prevents Lesbia from giving all of her love t...