Description
CONJUGATING LOVE
Book Summary
An essay that dares to name what love keeps silent. Laura Latorre proposes a free and disobedient exploration of the forms of love, moving away from social mandates and hegemonic norms. Through eleven texts that transit between essay, diary, poem, and monologue, the author connects theoretical proposals with biographical experiences to revolutionize the way we understand and live our bonds. A work that invites us to conjugate love in all its persons, tenses, and modes, without corsets or exclusive validations.
What is it about?
This book is born from the desire to name what is not usually said or heard. Laura Latorre defies grammatical and social norms by conjugating a concept instead of a verb, exploring the multiple variations of love: its voices, modes, tenses, aspects, numbers, and persons. Throughout eleven hybrid texts—essays, diaries, poems, monologues—the author dismantles the mandates and the "shoulds" that have shaped the hegemonic way of understanding love in our society. Without seeking to hide the differences that unite us, the work turns writing into a space and a time to revolutionize our affective bonds, connecting theoretical proposals with personal biographical experiences.
Main themes
- Critique of hegemonic romantic love and its social mandates.
- Exploration of the diversity of forms and expressions of love.
- Relationship between writing, desire, and the transformation of bonds.
- Disobedience to gender norms and established expressive formats.
- Intersection between the biographical and the theoretical in the construction of knowledge.
Who is it recommended for?
For readers interested in literary essays that question social and affective structures, people seeking critical reflections on love and relationships from a feminist and non-normative perspective, and those who appreciate hybrid texts that combine personal narrative, poetry, and thought. Also for those who wish to explore new ways of understanding and living affective bonds beyond traditional models.
What this book contributes
- A critical and renewing look at love, far from conventional discourses.
- An innovative literary format that breaks down the boundaries between genres and disciplines.
- Tools to question the social mandates that condition our relationships.
- A connection between personal experience and theoretical reflection that humanizes thought.
- An invitation to imagine and practice freer and more diverse ways of loving.
Technical specifications
- Author: Laura Latorre
- Publisher: La Oveja Roja
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: Literary essays, social issues and processes, sociology of the family and social relationships, family and relationships, dating, relationships, cohabitation and marriage
- Collection: Essay
- Publication date: November 2020
- Number of pages: 152
- Weight: 267 g
Editorial review
Conjugating Love presents itself as a brave and necessary proposal in the contemporary essay landscape. Laura Latorre manages to articulate a critical discourse on dominant affective structures without renouncing literary sensitivity or autobiographical honesty. Her commitment to a hybrid and disobedient format not only enriches the reading but also reflects the very content of the work: the need to break with molds to think about and live love in a freer way. It is a book that will especially appeal to those looking for deep and personal reflections on bonds, far from self-help manuals and prefabricated recipes.