Cinema was one of the great passions of Eugenio Trías and to it he dedicated a considerable part of his work, from its beginnings to what was his last book De cine (2013). And within his work with the seventh art, the main role is taken by Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, a film that Eugenio Trías claimed to have seen more than a hundred times since he saw it for the first time at sixteen. About her he wrote an essay entitled "The abyss that rises and overflows", included in Lo bello y lo siniestro (1983), and in 1998 he dedicated the book that we republish today. Eugenio Tría's approach to the arts pivots on three concepts: the beautiful, the sinister and the sublime. And the film Vertigo, as Eligio Díaz Garaygordóbil states in the prologue that opens this edition, "brings into play these ways of manifesting the 'intrinsic connection' between the three aesthetic categories". In this way,...read more
