El día que aprendí que no sé amar
Aura García-Junco

NON FICTION | 2021 | 248 pages

Whether we're progressives, conservatives, or chimeras, the weight given to the idea of exclusivity in romantic relationships is a topic that arouses strong feelings. Deep down, we're educated to aspire to a utopia: the day we'll finally discover True Love and find our other half. But the fantasy of romantic love—far from bringing the eternal happiness that is promised to us—is the origin of many of our miseries, and it intersects with expectations that combine a political context, a cultural context, and personal history.

More than a critique of monogamy, El día que aprendí que no sé amar is an (anti)manual to re-thinking the patterns that keep society divided in a violent binary that objectifies others and keeps us from creating more realistic expectations while having a relationship with another human, rather than with an abstract being in our imaginations.

Aura García-Junco—selected by the prestigious Granta magazine as one of the most brilliant writers of her generation—combines literature, sociology, and feminism in an essay that aims to rethink what we've been told about love, from classical Roman literature to the current entertainment industry.

RIGHTS: spanish SEIX BARRAL

“Aura García-Junco weaves together an essay that is as fresh as it is provocative.”
— Milenio
“El día que aprendí que no sé amar by Aura García Junco is a literary essay written with diaphanous language, emotional courage, and powerful thought. (...) The tone of this piece, which ranges from confessional to reflexive—sometimes colloquial, at other times philosophical, but always clear and distinct—allows for these hypersensitive topics to be discussed calmly and with the precision of a scalpel.”
— Kyzza Terrazas, Gatopardo
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