1924 wurde der Anarchist Pablo Martín Sánchez verurteilt, durch die Garotte hingerichtet zu werden. Ihm wurde vorgeworfen ein Attentat auf die Diktatur von Primo de Rivera geplant zu haben.

Love and Its Tombs tells of the tormented decision of a writer, Lázaro, as he writes a novel he has been forbidden to write about his great love, María, who died in tragic circumstances unknown to him since he is unwilling to find out the truth.

This book is not a story, a treatise or a manual that analyzes loves, that state that escapes any attempt to control, understand or overcome it. It is not a work on the philosophy of love, but it does contain philosophical analyses.

In 1142, at sixty-three years of age, the philosopher, poet and musician, Pierre Abelard, the ‘Lion of Paris’, died; twenty-one years later, his lover and wife, Heloise, followed him.