Victoria Kludt

Love in times of covid Victoria Kludt

As if it were a fictional film, one of those of low quality and so much imagination that borders on the absurd, some at the end of 2019 and most of the rest of the mortals at the beginning of 2020, we had to enter a nightmare in which we are not still able to awake, an unprecedented global situation: the coronavirus pandemic. Although in the Middle Ages, in Europe, the so-called "Black Death" created a general psychosis in the old continent without knowledge of the cause, since the medicine of that time was very precarious thanks to the great influencer of the time, the Catholic Church, which did not allow by then the investigation with corpses, so necessary for medical advances, people survived as they could, with the limited resources and knowledge available to them, even believing that it was a great divine punishment. Almost seven hundred years later, we experienced another pandemic and we also don't know who or what was the culprit. But what we do know is that the authorities, in most of the affected countries, decreed the obligatory quarantine and to stay at home and leave only to supply ourselves with essential products to live ... and here many, many problems, subjectivities on what is really essential to live. We live another reality, totally different from the one we were used to. Family and friends that are seen through computer and cell phone screens with delays and images that are frozen by the high demand of internet users and the wifi that is not enough. But what I am going to talk about in this book is about romantic relationships, men, women, teenagers and lovers of old age who, thanks to or due to this undesirable virus, moved away thousands of chained hearts, or lovers. Stories that could be real, stories heard by ear with borders inspired by my imagination, licenses that I allowed myself to integrate to decorate each of these six stories, and of course there is also my own story, although I warn you that it is the most boring of all. I hope you enjoy this book, inspired by the title of another book that I was on my way to write when the pandemic slapped us and put us all inside our homes: "Love in times of networks: adapting to a new way of relating, different from the one our parents told us". Fortunately, I´ve already published that book in Spanish and now in English.