This letter is addressed to the one who is always suspicious yet never reveals themselves: the suspicious Eros, not defined by her connection to Thanatos, but by her love story with Psyche. This episode is an essay on the recent novel "The Palace of Eros," by the Uruguayan-American Caro de Robertis, and the broader societal context of the current wars, and the communitarian enlightenment through bodily emancipation that opposes it. Through a detailed analysis of the novel, they examine the transformative power of love and myth, highlighting how these narratives can serve as a proposal for liberation and resistance against oppressive systems. They reflect on the novel's reimagining of Greek mythology and its exploration of gender, desire, and power, as a renovation of a rooted hope for all kinds of bodies.

This letter is addressed to the friends we have lost in the hope that literature, our literatura, will provide a pact of love. In that hope, as well, we delve into the spiritual pacts that books can offer, such as the ones in novels by Mariana Enríquez, Ursula K. Le Guin, José Donoso and Zora Neale Hurston.

This special episode has been our own ritual to never forget what happened with literature in Chile since September 11th, 1973. It was recorded on September 11th, 2023, for us to grasp that previous moment of complete potentiality, and to manifest that fuerza into our lives and books.