India, Oct. 10 -- Anne Carson's genre- and form-bending writing has won her the Nobel in Literature this year. The Canadian poet, essayist, and collaborator on a graphic novel is perhaps best known for dissecting classics and finding contemporary resonance for their underlying themes. This week, we go back to one of her earliest works, Eros the Bittersweet (1986). A doctoral dissertation that was structured into a book of literary criticism of Greek classical works - Sappho's Fragments and Plato's Dialogues, among others - and several other textual sources deals with romantic and erotic love, but from a vantage of emotional antipodes such as joy and pain, belonging and renunciation. It shows desire, as a result of longing, to be also a product of absence or lacking. Carson also draws desire out of the confines of the amorous alone and extends it to other pursuits, including intellectual. Eros... thus makes for an essential read to appreciate Carson's magic....