Introduction
It is difficult to encapsulate in a few words what any love experience between a man and a woman entails. Literature is proof of this. Despite this difficulty, there have been famous writers who have managed to capture it with words.
This new issue of In-formarse explores some of those great proposals of “ideal” love. Homer in the Iliad presents us with tender Andromache who must say goodbye to her husband before he goes to war; Dickens in Great Expectations narrates the story of a love that promised much and then leaves us with the taste of disillusionment. Ovid, Tolkien, and the love story in The Giver are the themes reviewed in this issue, aiming to enrich and broaden our human view of love. There is no shortage of realism and faith. Literature and Christian faith intertwine in most of the articles, since “man –says Saint John Paul II in his first encyclical– cannot live without love” (Redemptor Hominis, 10).
Contents
03 – Editorial – Who am I? Someone who loves. BY WALTER SCHU, L.C
07 – The Oak and the Flower – Love in the history of literature. BY ALEJANDRO PÁEZ, L.C
12 – A Higher Calling, A Wider Scope – Romance in J.R.R. Tolkien. BY ERIC GILHOOLY, L.C.
16 – A Marriage Heritage of Humanity – Evocations around Hector and Andromache. BY ANTONIO HERRERO, L.C.
23 – The Giver – A society without love. BY MONIQUE VILLEN
27 – Great Expectations – The Desire for True Love. BY JOHN STUDER L.C.
31 – Two Worlds, Two Loves – Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Sacred Scripture. BY ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ, L.C
