The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century

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A bold manifesto by a brilliant young mind on our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships.

In the twenty-first century, our romantic ambitions are intrepid... We want egalitarian and honest bonds, and we are eager to understand what that means. We also want to fall in love, to have sex, and to be loved; we want stability and adrenaline-the lifeboat and the open sea-, we want everything at the same time. But is it possible to have all of that Or is this a recipe for frustration Is this an honest yearning or a mere aspiration, a desire for completeness Am I an idiot if I pursue it Am I a cynic if I give up on it

Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in the heart of Buenos Aires, Tamara Tenenbaum learned about the sexual and emotional habits of the secular world like an anthropologist discovering an unknown civilisation.

Drawing from philosophy, feminist activism, conversations with friends, and from an attempt to turn her own experience into a laboratory for personal and collective reflection, Tenenbaum dives into the universe of affection, celebrates the end of romantic love as we know it, and proposes the eroticization of consent.

The End of Love is a tool for the creative destruction of romantic love and the principles that sustain it so that, from its ashes, a better loveone that makes men and women freer in their relationshipscan rise.

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'"Lucid and charming, Tenenbaum's narrative and her use of auto-fiction to dive into diverse aspects of realities achieves her goal of transcending individuality."' - El Pais

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"The End of Love takes on many of the most disconcerting, complex problems of our intimate, everyday lives with the perfect mix of modesty and ambition."

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"The End of Love adds to an extensive dialogue between authors who were able to share their personal stories to give way to changes in the sphere of the real, the quotidian, and create new opportunities including Virginia Woolf, Laurie Penny, Virginie Despentes, and Remedios Zafra."

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Tenenbaum enters the sphere of emotions to offer a meticulous analysis of the subjectivities that govern relationships.

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Author Bio

Tamara Tenenbaum was born in Buenos Aires in 1989. She is a lecturer at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. She writes for Vice and other publications and was awarded the Premio Ficciones for her book Nadie vive tan cerca de nadie. Her long-form essay, The End of Love, was published to great critical acclaim in Latin America, Spain and Italy. An Amazon Prime series based on the book premiered in 2022. Carolina Parodi studied Literary Translation and Interpretation in Buenos Aires before moving to London. She currently works in publishing and as a freelance translator. She was born in Brazil and grew up in Argentina.