“The ear is the organ of fear,” Nietzsche writes.
And with a little development of the phrase we find the echo of some of the most suggestive myths of modernity: those that take as their model the two divinities of the delirious celebration, of a wild nature, Dionysus and Pan. First of all, the fear loses its negative character;
It is, rather, “initiative” fear prior to overcoming personal limits.
Secondly, this reality that overwhelms us is perceived by an organ that is both cerebral and physical: the ear.
And, finally, it is music, the “panic” dance, the vehicle that dynamits the autonomy of the rational self.
Nietzsche's is the first sentence
of Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun
, the new novel by Mónica Ojeda and our Book of the Week.
And it synthesizes his poetics very well, because in this novel the bodies seek their transcendence in the orgy of dance.
Along with the latest from the Ecuadorian writer, in this issue the
Babelia
experts review titles such as
A Minimum Unhappiness,
by Carmen Verde, a testimony of mother-daughter relationships not from the newly released motherhood in the face of a creature that depends on you and life changes, but from the perspective of a daughter who recounts the sadness and clouds that her mother left in her.
The recently published
The Letter from Joan Anderson.
The holy grail of the beat generation,
by Neal Cassady, was the catalyst that launched Jack Kerouac into his literary debauchery;
In
The Forge of a Historian,
Ángel Viñas collects his great contributions to contemporary history and how he arrived at them and, finally, the journalist Enric Juliana collects his impressions on the evolution of power in Spain during the last two decades in
Spain, the Pact and Fury
, an essay about an increasingly polarized society.
You can follow
Babelia
on
and
X
, or sign up here to receive
our weekly newsletter
.