This chapter analyses La ridícula idea de no volver a verte (2013), by the well-known contemporary Spanish author and journalist, Rosa Montero (b. Madrid, 1951), as a singular text within the Spanish tradition of life writing. The chapter focuses on Montero’s ethics and aesthetics of distance and her negotiation with the auto/biographical genre in this generically hybrid text, which combines autobiography, biography, grief memoir, personal essay and photobiography. It discusses the author’s constant fluctuations between revelations and concealments, and the parallels between Montero and her biographical subject—the Polish scientist and two times Nobel Prize winner, Marie Curie—particularly regarding their respective grieving processes in widowhood.