With an erudite and entertaining tone, absolutely exceptional, the author abbreviates in classical texts; he goes to Biblical references of Judeo-Christianity, Buddhist saints and Japanese esthetes; Calls history, medicine, and philosophy, in order to point directly to a premise: fiction, especially literary fiction, understood as incarnation.
The five essays in this volume are based on the controversy about the circumcision of Christ and the mystical experiences of the Agnes Blannbekin beguine, investigate Borges' blindness and his life as literature, in the self-destruction in the work of Baron Biza and in cruelty In the times of an ancient Hindu emperor, they go in search of the common core where the pain becomes compassionate. A heart beating in living flesh in the face of contact with things that are also suffering will emerge as an affective and original seat of all artis...read more
