No siento nada

What is happening to love? Can we still really fall in love? Why do stories almost always end badly? With her caustic tone and her documentary rigor, Liv Strömquist analyzes how the heart fares in these times of late capitalism. With the help of Leonardo DiCaprio, Beyoncé, Kierkegaard, Hilda Doolittle, the Smurfs, sociological theory, reality TV contestants, Plato, and many more, she seeks answers to big questions: Can we control love? What happens to those who go from flower to flower? Why do stories almost always end badly? The cartoonist combines well-known references with less-expected anecdotes to probe the ins and outs of passion: the torment of the young man who fell in love with Socrates 2,400 years ago or the troubled story of Lord Byron and his ex. Strömquist has his hands full of stories to unfold a true anatomy of eros.