A Nostalgia For Desire

By Catalina Infante Beovic (tr. Michelle Mirabella)

World Literature Today, 2026

Employing extended apostrophe and dual timelines, Infante explores what happens to desire, sexuality, and women’s relationship with their bodies in the context of family life, in the wake of marriage and raising children. The story is told through the eyes of a mother as she watches her daughters’ youth and passion and yearns for the vitality of her own.