Una biografía de la soledad

Despite the fact that, unfortunately, loneliness is on everyone's lips in recent times, to the point that it has been spoken of as a "modern epidemic", little is known about its history and cultural meanings. . "A biography of loneliness" offers a new interpretation of this emotion -or, in the words of its author, of this "cluster of emotions"- as an experience and emotional language to dismantle the common belief that it is a universal phenomenon and timeless. Instead, Bound Alberti demonstrates throughout these pages that his birth is linked to the development of modernity and he has his own biography that mutates according to the particular biographies to which he adapts, fluctuating according to genre, class or ethnicity, among other factors. If it is true that loneliness, with its profound consequences for mental health, constitutes one of the great challenges that we will have to face in this century, it is necessary and urgent to achieve a deep and direct knowledge of its various manifestations and nuances, but above all, become aware of its inescapable historical character.