When we fall in love, we fall into a kind of enchantment. Our mind, generally preoccupied with its own problems, thinks only of the beloved. The hypnotized being surrenders to the will of the one who seduced him. Seducers are those people who know the tremendous power contained in these moments of absolute surrender. The Art of Seduction – concise edition, written by Robert Greene and in collaboration with designer Joost Elffers, gives the reader the opportunity to learn the legacy of civilization's greatest seducers – from John F. Kennedy to Napoleon Bonaparte, from Pablo Picasso to Cleopatra.
For Greene, the act of seducing is rational and can be developed. For this, it is necessary to know its own seductive characteristics. Then, it is essential to study the victim who will be seduced. Nine types make up the panel of key seducers described by Robert Greene. And the author proposes self-knowledge as a goal for the potential of seduction to be fully realized. After mapping the most striking personalities, the author instructs how to act so that the victim surrenders totally and unconditionally.
The great advantage of a summarized work is that it goes straight to the point. The quotes and comments of celebrated thinkers on the subject remained. The reader can delight in the phrases, commentaries, and examples of philosophers and writers such as Ovid, Nietzsche, Plutarch, Soren Kierkegaard, Sthendal, and Virginia Woolf. Robert Greene's wry and entertaining text builds a strategy manual for those who wish to hone in on the art of loving conquest. And that it will be useful also in other sectors of life in which seduction is fundamental.
