Els argonautes

Argonauts is an unclassifiable and inspiring book that mixes autobiography, personal life, and academic theory, and offers intelligent, passionate, and modern reflection on desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At the heart of the book, a love story: the relationship between the author and transgender artist Harry Dodge, falling in love and sex, the difficulties of getting pregnant, testosterone injections and endless conversations, complicity unshakable and finally pregnancy and the complexities and joys of forming a queer family. Heiress to renowned intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson links his own experience with a rigorous exploration of the most iconic theories on sexuality, gender, motherhood and marriage and turns this compelling and enlightening essay into a deafening cry. in favor of the most radical individual freedom and in an essential vindication of love and the importance of caring for one another.