From graphic novel to podcast: 'The reddest rose unfolds' is now available exclusively on Podimo. Thus, the work of the famous Swedish writer and activist Liv Strömquist comes to our platform, where it takes on a new dimension delving into the audio format, becoming the first graphic novel to be transformed into a podcast. The person responsible for adapting this fantastic novel has been the writer and screenwriter Bibiana Ricciardi, alongside ALT Autores and Sonda Media.

The writer and speaker has developed this new comic-essay in which she presents a theme as universal as love, based on the urban legend that says Leonardo DiCaprio has had thirty-two girlfriends, all stunning models, and has not fallen in love with any. Therefore, in this novel now brought to podcast format, it aims to answer the questions related to that very theme: Should we seek the reasons in consumer society and our propensity for narcissism? Perhaps to the laws of biology? Or simply to the fact that DiCaprio is confused.

These topics are familiar to the author of the work since her texts primarily focus on sociopolitical issues from a feminist and leftist perspective, as well as satirical essays about power and injustices. All of this, accompanied by a sense of humor that is as subtle as it is effective, and with quotes from historical thinkers such as Plato, Kierkegaard, Freud, Nietzsche, and even Byung Han or Eva Illouz. 

There is also space for gossip magazines and academic studies in this novel-podcast, aspects that allow her to turn this narrative into a true and original philosophical collage to reflect on a question that we have all asked ourselves at some point: Why do we fall in love?

If the title has caught your attention, ‘The reddest rose unfolds’ refers to a verse by American feminist poet Hilde Doolittle who, both in her life and in her writings, advocated for liberated loves.

Enjoy the teaser and the first episode of the podcast 'The reddest rose unfolds' on Podimo.