The Secret Rooms consist of readings, stories, and testimonies in which the suffering body, through its various losses, speaks about ourselves. They are literary spaces of illness and pain, where their impressive power to change us is revealed; studies on pain as a joyful torture of lovers and, at the same time, as a vehicle for their transformation; explorations of the body as a source of pleasure and, at the same time, a prison of sorrow.

The secret rooms of literature are inhabited by physical and mental maladies; they are the places of pain and death: this double flame that, with its dark light, defines life. And, at the same time, they are the niches where the ideas of Fernando Vallejo, Katherine Mansfield, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, Abigail Boórquez, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, David Huerta, Roberto Bolaño, Oliver Sacks, Maria Luisa Puga develop; authors to whom, among others, the writer turns, one might say, striving to discover the body, its limits and influence, both in the realm of human psyche and in that of society and culture.