Adnan Mahmutovic

Love & Its Discontents

Arts EN ↓ 27 episodes

Love & Its Discontents is a podcast on the topic of LOVE and LOVE STORIES. Starting with Jeffrey Eugenides's claim, in My Mistress Sparrow is Dead, “Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name,” the podcast will take you on a journey through literature from antiquity to contemporary stories, wrestling with notions such as romantic love and altruism, deep diving into ecstatic love and solidarity. It asks, Can love be examined like an object? What on earth is love? Where in the world is love? Are we born to love, born with a natural sense of certain things like goodness, and bea...

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Adnan Mahmutovic

Episodes

Birdsong 10.11.2022 9:02

“Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.” In this episode, we dig into the story of the Latin poet Catullus and his beloved Lesbia and the mysterious sparrow which stood between them. The sparrow is an obstacle, but when the bird dies, its ghostly presence remains to haunt Catullus' desire. Jeffrey Eugenides uses this to claim that a love story is defined by the presence of an o...

Love & Its Discontents Introduction 07.10.2022 7:39

Love & Its Discontents is a podcast on the topic of LOVE and LOVE STORIES. Host: Adnan Mahmutović is Bosnian-Swedish writer and lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Stockholm University. The podcast is based on his university module in which students travel through literature from the Bible and the ancient Greeks to contemporary stories, wrestling with notions such as romanti...