A fascinating reflection on chaos and madness based on scientific theories, literary expressions and personal experiences.
Is the real beyond our reach? Are truth and madness symptoms of the same disease? Labatut uses a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, the atavistic terror of Lovecraft, the radical logic of David Hilbert and the delirious illumination that Philip K. Dick had to talk about the strange texture that the human experience is acquiring.
Following the paths of unreason, he delves into the discovery of chaos to try to remove the stone of madness that grows like a bulb on our foreheads, as the world takes shapes in which we can no longer believe. In these two essays, the author reminds us that sometimes going crazy can be an appropriate response to reality, and that the price we pay for knowledge is the loss of understanding.
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