El fin de la novela de amor

Vivian Gornick has spent years developing a formidable dialogue between literature and life. The American writer is convinced that reading is a form of self-knowledge, and that reading with the right eye can help us understand how we came to be who we are and why the times we live in are the way they are. In this book, Ella Gornick takes up one of her favorite themes, romantic love symbolized by marriage, and discusses it as one of the key themes in 20th-century literature. In a journey through the life and work of some of the authors she most admires -such as Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Grace Paley, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver or Jane Smiley-, the author argues that our world has changed and that love and marriage are no longer, in our time, metaphors that adequately represent happiness and personal fulfillment.