One of my all time favorite novels concerning love is Tiffanie Debartolo's How to Kill a Rockstar. It is the story of how the corporate world of the music industry can destroy the pure beauty of music and strip a musician of his love for creating music (depressing, I know). It is framed, however, through the perspective of the power of love shared by the aforementioned musician, Paul, and the narrator of the novel, Elisa, who are destined to fall in love from the moment they meet. Their love is seen as very strong early on in the novel, as if forces beyond their control have drawn them together because they were fated for each other. Their loves takes form particularly in affection, romance, and eros, which we talked about in class as the forms of love we assign to relationships as outlined by Lewis.
Their relationship has all these qualities of true love that Lewis talks about in Till We Have Faces, and their strong desire for each other can be compared to sehnsucht, and Pysche's longing for the source of beauty on the mountain. "It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from." (Faces) We later find this source of beauty on the Grey Mountain to be the unconditional love of the god that is Pysche's future husband, which we can relate to Elisa and Paul's unconditional love.
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