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Today, queer poetry is decisive for its ability to restore extraordinary plasticity to language: it allows rewriting an established, violent, rigid, and normative narrative, both socially and intimately, that excludes anyone who does not fit into the usual gender roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"1280\"\u003eThis anthology is conceived as a polyphonic book, the most honest way to approach queer desire. It does not aim to establish a canon but to document a set of proposals that build a new narrative and record the search for a different affectivity and its radical freedom. 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[...] One of the most unique and radical voices in contemporary Spanish literature.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlana S. Portero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lovers are the bodies that smile before eating, that look into the eyes before kissing. Their drive is oriented toward intersubjective encounter, and therefore exists in the ethical dimension. Loving bodies desire to overthrow the racializing and patriarchal heterosexual system because they want to erase in the other’s gaze the ghost of violence experienced before the encounter between loving bodies. The loving bodies, subjects of this book, long for the joy of those they love and are frustrated by the inheritance of a symbolic world that assaults and limits their capacity for attention. Because they smile before eating and look into the eyes before kissing, they do not desire the other’s masquerade, they find no rest in the rehearsed and complacent joy of gender, they yearn for encounter through a hope for more truthful communication. Because their drive exists in the ethical dimension, because it is practiced in the intersubjective, loving bodies, above all, will wish to have loved well.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfirmed as one of the great revelations of contemporary Spanish literature with Lo que hay and La seducción, Sara Torres signs an essay that seeks a way to think beyond heterosexual binarism. With the purpose of slimming down the images and ideas that initiate us into the human culture of the body and sexuality in the West, the author seeks joyful practices that progressively move away from what she calls the “hetero-real fantasy,” an identity fantasy based on a battle between opposites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Eros, the archer, tenses her body and in that tension, initiates the sexual. She is about to put herself at risk: it is not a risk of death, as heterosexual epic sings, but of sweetness.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Her language is absolutely magnificent. Sara Torres has such a unique, diamond-like voice... and I love that writing. She carves thoughts, images. It has been almost like a book that is heard when read.”\u003cbr\u003eRosa Montero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A goddess. [...] One of the most unique and radical voices in contemporary Spanish literature.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlana S. Portero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sara Torres moves vitally [...] with a natural sexual explicitness that includes the fantasy and materiality of a silky, concentrated, and unpretentious eroticism but with intense literary elaboration.”\u003cbr\u003eJordi Gracia, Babelia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Sara Torres] has become a mass phenomenon thanks to ingredients no one would imagine: gender theory, tenderness, and lots of lesbianism. […] A reference model for those who come and for all who will come.”\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra Lores, Vogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sara Torres writes with that mix of delicacy, lucidity, and tenderness of someone who knows that life and those who inhabit it are drawn with very fine strokes, infinite nuances of bodies that love, desire, suffer, and embody all kinds of contradictions.”\u003cbr\u003eCarolina Freire Vales, ELLE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“ALSA connects all people in love and Sara Torres is this for me, she is the ALSA of lesbians. 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Time suspends between these two poles: the imminent loss of the mother and the desire that runs through the body and memory. When the lover disappears and life continues in a small apartment by the sea, an emotional reconstruction process begins, marked by absence, writing, and the need to understand love in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"1249\"\u003eWith prose of great poetic sensitivity, Sara Torres explores grief, intimacy between women, and the emotional legacy left by family relationships. The novel traces an emotional map where desire, the body, and memory constantly dialogue, and where love reveals itself as a complex force that spans generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1251\" data-end=\"1497\"\u003ePublished after the author was recognized as one of the most unique voices in contemporary Spanish poetry, \u003cem data-start=\"1371\" data-end=\"1383\"\u003eLo que hay\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Sara Torres as a writer capable of combining lyricism and lucidity in a deeply personal work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1737\"\u003eA book about \u003cstrong data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1596\"\u003eloss, desire between women, and the construction of emotional identity\u003c\/strong\u003e, which dialogues with literary traditions of poetic prose and with a contemporary sensitivity very present in current queer literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reservoir Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56857089212760,"sku":"LIB-LO-RE-539","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788417910969.jpg?v=1772928942"},{"product_id":"la-seduccion-sara-torres-libro","title":"La seducción","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"347\"\u003eAfter the recognition gained with \u003cem data-start=\"226\" data-end=\"238\"\u003eLo que hay\u003c\/em\u003e, Sara Torres returns with \u003cem data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"278\"\u003eLa seducción\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel about emotional distance, imagination, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"846\"\u003eThe story begins when a young photographer writes to an author twenty years her senior with the intention of photographing her while she works on her next novel. After several email exchanges, the writer invites her to spend a few days at her home, a small farmhouse on the Catalan coast. However, upon arrival, the photographer discovers that reality is different from what she had imagined: her host is elusive, avoids being photographed, and maintains a distance that is hard to decipher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"848\" data-end=\"1202\"\u003eFaced with this resistance, the photographer begins to construct the images she cannot capture with her camera. Scenes unfold in her mind as anxiety, fascination, and desire grow. 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