LOVE WITH OBSTACLES (AMOR ROJO)

The design of the book borrows its form from a case of radical clandestine publishing. In 1977, Swedish publisher Bo Cavefors hid es pecially controversial political writings in romantic novel entitled Ka¨rlek med fo¨rhinder [Love With Obstacles]. Beneath the subte rfuge of bourgeois romantic love, the actual content appeared: raf: texte (the German militant organization known as the Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, did not use capital letters). By disguising the explosive political writings of the RAF as a popular romance, Cave fors was ...[Read more]