Correspondencia con Ernesto Priego
Texto completo en el blog de Letras Libres, 2 de mayo, 2012 Ernesto*, Hace un par de días leía La Misteriosa Llama de la Reina Loana, de Umberto Eco; ahí, como sabes, Giambattista Bodoni ha perdido la memoria de sus experiencias, y solo conserva la libresca, en su caso abundantísima y admirable. Esta amnesia quijotesca me [...]
Posted at 13:23 on May 2, 2012 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Correspondencia, Ensayo | Tagged: Apocalípticos e Integrados, Ernesto Priego, La Misteriosa Llama de la Reina Loana, Letras Libres, Umberto Eco, University College London | read on
Teju Cole: Restitution
1. In The Perfect Crime (1995), Jean Baudrillard states that the disgrace of the xxist century consists in “the absence of things from themselves” (1995, p. 2). Mere illusions define the real, meaningless world, he adds. He had already said before that since the end of the modern bonanza, during which Western revolutions exploited—both social and [...]
Posted at 09:49 on April 30, 2012 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Essay | Tagged: Baltasar Gracián, Essay, Jean Baudrillard, Literature, Open City, Philosophy, Roland Barthes, Teju Cole, The Perfect Crime, The Transparency of Evil, Twitter | read on
