Love words

Description

After capturing the attention of thousands of readers with his “Dictionary of Feelings” or his “Sentimental Labyrinth,” the philosopher José Antonio Marina, uses the true love letters written by illustrious figures of universal culture to create a treatise on emotions. in your hands, the letters that Sappho writes to Anactoria, or Napoleon to Josefina or Pablo Neruda to Albertina Rosa (among many others), They become a material of incalculable value, since they are the result of the field work with which the philosopher has investigated the feeling of love. Through correspondence between lovers, Marina breaks down universal emotions such as fear, nostalgia or tenderness (attitude with which a mother relates to her children), that breaks out between lovers when what is expected of them is the violent desire to possess the other. As the philosopher says, “the wide territories of love are a jungle, and we need a map to navigate them without getting lost”. Words of love is a universal atlas, a treasure map, a road guide that leads us through feelings and emotions that we have all experienced and that with this book we can understand.