She, like Barthes’s lover, is surprised by the newness of each experience of intense love: the sense that the world is remade.Ī question hovering within the book and confronting its more demanding readers is whether Nelson’s love, housed within an increasingly conventional domestic setting, is at odds with her claims to radicality.
Early on she explains that her title is a nod to Roland Barthes’s suggestion that the subject who utters the phrase “I love you” resembles the Argonaut, constantly renewing his ship during its voyage without changing its name.
The appeal of the book is that it’s about love, as much as about queerness: about the conjugal and maternal love that amazes Nelson with its unexpected plenitude, coming after years of solitude.
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