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Abstract
Ivan Klima in his novel Love and Garbage, treats ‘love’ and ‘happiness’ as mutually exclusive emotional states that cannot have a simultaneous existence. Klima shows, through the experiences of his unnamed narrator, that ‘love’ and ‘happiness’ as emotional and psychological categories are based on different and ‘opposing principles’ which makes them elusive as one singular experience. According to Klima, whereas happiness is more concerned with security and possession, love deals mainly with passion, intensity, desire, art and sexual thrill, thereby marking them as ‘experiential oppositions’.