a 2002 novel by Robert Clark (ISBN 1400030307)—seeLove Among the Ruins (Robert Clark); or, finally,
a scholarly book by Victoria Wohl (Ohio State University) entitled Love Among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (Princeton University Press) (ISBN 0691095221).
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(LoveAmong the Ruins's title is not its only Walker Percyish element, as the novel is haunted by Percy's quietly tortured Catholicism.) The novel opens with William sending Emily a shy, exploratory mash note.
LoveAmong the Ruins quickly becomes a many-mirrored corridor of love: between father and daughter, mother and son, mother and daughter, husband and wife, man and mistress, William and Emily.
LoveAmong the Ruins reminds us of the grandeur of small lives and smaller moments, their sometimes terrible ramifications, and how minor fiction can indeed be great.
It is a stirring anthology of human aspiration-aspirations that the Kasses contend are still beating, however faintly, and however challenged by Fox TV and naked dorms, in the hearts of young people.
In a formulaic short story called "The Word Love," by Chita Banerjee Divakaruni, an unhappy young Indian woman finally leaves her callous lover when she realizes her need to hew to her mother and the tradition of premarital chastity she represents.
A passage from a novel by Pearl Abraham, which tells the story of a rebellious young Orthodox Jewish woman who finally and happily conforms to her parents' choice for a marriage partner, is similarly programmatic.
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