Jesús García Calero and María José Solano in conversation

Geografía del deseo: 42 relatos eróticos began as an act of literary rebellion. Its authors, María José Solano and Jesús García Calero, decided to write 42 erotic stories during the pandemic because, while confined, touch was forbidden. The book explores desire across time and space, from antiquity to the 21st century, mapping a geography not only of bodies, but of gazes, cities, and personal mythologies. Before appearing as a book, arranged chronologically, some of the stories circulated on Zenda under pseudonyms. Thus were defined the two distinct voices: Solano’s, experiential and penetrating, embodying the lovers of his literary myths, and Calero’s, which documents and constructs narrative spaces and historical moments in which eroticism pushes to the limit what we know of the history of its protagonists.