Love's Cure by Anthony Labriola

Love's Cure by Anthony Labriola

Anton Sergeevich Antonov and his mamochka, Zoya Ivanovna Antonov, are under secret police surveillance for suspected subversive activities. He is a retired writer who believes he lives an inverted life, like a character out of Gogol. His farcical inversion makes him feel that he has been cured of any interest in the illness of life. He now claims he wants a cure for his obsession with the sickness of love. What are these things called>life and>love, but irremediable diseases, especially as he grows older? When at last he turns 40, his birthday wish is that this birthday be his>last. He agrees with Dostoyevsky in his>Notes from Underground on the question of aging: it is bad manners to live beyond forty. To live with smugness, triviality, banality and bad taste-what the hell for? His Gogolian world is now turned inside out and flipped upside down. He can no longer accept the rules imposed by his society, especially the ban on same-sex marriage. Defiance leads to disobedience and its consequence for him and his lover. He should get married, but inverts the desire, in order to choose otherwise. Through the absolute inversion and subversion of what is real and what is not, Anton Sergeevich and the love of his life are fated to confront prejudice and inequality before it is too late.

Anton Sergeevich Antonov and his mamochka, Zoya Ivanovna Antonov, are under secret police surveillance for suspected subversive activities. He is a retired writer who believes he lives an inverted life, like a character out of Gogol. His farcical inversion makes him feel that he has been cured of any interest in the illness of life. He now claims he wants a cure for his obsession with the sickness of love. What are these things called>life and>love, but irremediable diseases, especially as he grows older? When at last he turns 40, his birthday wish is that this birthday be his>last. He agrees with Dostoyevsky in his>Notes from Underground on the question of aging: it is bad manners to live beyond forty. To live with smugness, triviality, banality and bad taste-what the hell for? His Gogolian world is now turned inside out and flipped upside down. He can no longer accept the rules imposed by his society, especially the ban on same-sex marriage. Defiance leads to disobedience and its consequence for him and his lover. He should get married, but inverts the desire, in order to choose otherwise. Through the absolute inversion and subversion of what is real and what is not, Anton Sergeevich and the love of his life are fated to confront prejudice and inequality before it is too late.

Labriola, Anthony: - Anthony Labriola's work has appeared in such publications as The Canadian Forum, PRISM international, Lo Straniero, Vallum: New International Poetics, Still Point Arts Quarterly, and Passion: Poetry. He has had several collections of poetry published, including two by Shanti Arts-the other being Birds and Arrows (2017). Labriola was born in Italy but grew up in Canada. He comes from a large family, and many of his siblings are artists. He is married to his childhood sweetheart, Louisa Josephine. They have five grown children-each is an artist in his or her own right. Labriola's love of poetry began at a young age when he first read Dylan Thomas's The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. The same force drove him to write and write and write with a focus on mystical realities. The theater also held a strange fascination for him, and he acted in, directed, and wrote many plays. After graduating high school in the late 1960s, he studied English and French at the University of Toronto. Bent on teaching literature and the arts, he received a B. Ed. in English and Dramatic Arts from the Faculty of Education, and an M.A. from the Graduate Center for the Study of Drama. He taught English, Drama and Performing Arts for thirty-two years. He was also Curriculum Chair in the Arts and was inspired by the talents of his students. Labriola now lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and teaches Life Writing at Seneca College.

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ISBN 13	9781681145563
ISBN 10	1681145561
Title	Love's Cure
Author	Anthony Labriola
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Anaphora Literary Press
Year published	2021-07-07
Number of pages	140
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