A mosaic of profound cultural miscegenation, the cradle of jazz and American music, a redoubt of dark African rituals and wild indulgence set against surrounding puritanism, New Orleans is a living homage to its roots that does not forget its literary children either...
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New Orleans. The Umbilical Cord of the Mississippi Read More »
We find it in the crestfallen gaze of two bodies sitting down to dine in silence out of inertia, as they have every night for years; in the frantic sliding of fingers over a collection of anonymous photographs slipping across the coldness of a screen glowing in the dark; in the lost gaze beneath the aging skin of eyelids that now only wait and dream; or in the anonymity of one who knows themselves invisible to the eyes of the world. These are all masks of the same involuntary confinement that poisons the body...
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The Alchemist's Solitude Read More »
Sometimes I think a dog is like a child who refused to grow up so as not to lose faith in human beings, though it proves to be far too high a price to pay. The only human who perhaps did so, Peter Pan, paid a terrible price for it: amnesia, and with it, his very humanity. If the real or figurative orphans of the 19th century—such as Oliver Twist or Pelle—represented a helpless childhood in an adult world of pure perversion, crime, and selfishness, they did not enjoy the privilege of suffering an existential crisis. For them, the danger of maturity was not becoming a kind of hypocritical, domesticated idiot, but rather a criminal, a slave, or a corpse. Throughout the 20th century, however, narrative stopped throwing its youth into physical battles for survival to lock them inside their psychological conflicts, highlighting in all of them the trauma of moral exposure caused by the disappearance of the adult man...
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Thrown into the world through the birth canal, the new being will yearn for the rest of its life to return to a mythical state of completeness to which it can never return. A dream stolen from death, which it will only fleetingly caress in ephemeral moments of fulfilment...
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Is Love Unnecessarily Necessary? Read More »
An interesting question, in my opinion, always humble and respectful, because I consider it the prelude to the great question: What does it mean to die?...
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To Be or To Have (a Body)? Read More »
