Epistolary conversation between the eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and the Italian editor and translator Riccardo Mazzeo on the "liquid" relationship between sociology and literature, between the social sciences and the arts in general.
According to Bauman and Mazzeo, to interpret our reality and our world it is necessary to intertwine literature and sociology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, anthropology and politics; Complementary disciplines that, in addition to sharing arguments, objectives, and fields of research, feed on each other with their complex network of metaphors and discourses.
In this sense, the book is full of cultural references and reflections inspired by authors such as Calvino, Camus, Littell, Proust, Freud, Goethe, Perec or Kundera, which help to understand and explain the decline of society, the importance of education , the value of freedom, the paternity crisis or the risks of technology.