"A single transvestite is enough to undermine the foundations of a house, undo the knots of a commitment, break a promise, give up a life." The actress who narrates Tesis sobre una domesticación carries this certainty as she moves among invisible pacts, overflowing desires, and bonds that no longer know how to hold.
At the heart of the novel is a bourgeois family trying to cling to a peaceful life, but living surrounded by intimate hells and buried guilt. Eroticism and violence run through their relationships, although a stubborn tenderness always appears that resists disappearing. Domestication here relates as much to the body and desire as to the home, the couple, and the command of normality.
Wild and moving, Tesis sobre una domesticación confirms Camila Sosa Villada as a writer capable of stretching realism to the limit and staging the transvestite experience at the heart of the family. With intense and very visual prose, the novel shows how that search for small moments of happiness is marked by a defeat that was written from the start.
About the author
Camila Sosa Villada (Córdoba, Argentina, 1982) studied Social Communication and Theatre at the National University of Córdoba. In 2009 she premiered her first show, Carnes tolendas, retrato escénico de un travesti. She is the author of the poems La novia de Sandro (2015), the stories Soy una tonta por quererte (2022), and the novels Las malas (2020) and Tesis sobre una domesticación (2024).
