Chirbes writes about why a novel of happy love is impossible:
The happy moments of love—fortunate loves—are difficult or impossible to turn into a novel. I would have to search my memory to find convincing literary portrayals of happy love. Narrative is change, a transition from one state to another, whereas love is a suspension.
—Rafael Chirbes, Diaries
This was also the idea behind Isaac Rosas’ brilliant novel Feliz Final. Love is about permanence. Fluidity, thus, is anti-love.
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