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© 2026 Carles Alberola
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Carles Alberola (b. 1974, Barcelona) emerged on the literary scene with L’últim cantant (2002) and quickly became known for his playful interweaving of everyday speech with high literary allusion. Besos, his ninth collection of short stories, arrived in the spring of 2020—precisely as Europe entered the first wave of the COVID‑19 pandemic. The book’s title, “Kisses,” evokes an act that, under pandemic restrictions, was transformed from a mundane expression of affection into a regulated, almost illicit gesture. This paradox is at the heart of Alberola’s project: he asks how intimacy is reshaped when the body is simultaneously a vector of disease and a vessel for love.

The purpose of this paper is threefold:

To the people who have taught me the language of
a kiss—my parents, my friends, and every stranger
who shared a fleeting moment of tenderness.