Because of your Love, the Air Hurts Me
A mentor dissuades an aspiring poet from writing, extolling Lorca and reading with AI as a superior alternative to creative vanity.
Loose Pages
Essays
Schönberg, Canetti, and Lateral Knowledge
Schönberg and Canetti extol lateral thinking as a creative path against illusory linear progress in art, humanities, and AI.
Book Reviews
Focillon, Forms, Lezama
The enduring influence of Focillon’s essay on the poetics and literary theory of José Lezama Lima, where artistic forms are living and timeless entities, with echoes in the Baroque and creative intuition.
Essays
Albert Camus’ Carnets (1935-1951)
Rebellious existentialism, moral integrity, and resistance to the absurd through notes, quotes, and reflections.
Essays
Is Rereading a Form of Canon?
Rereading for pleasure: the personal canon versus academia and marketing.
Loose Pages
Confessions of a Dilettante
Far from its pejorative connotation, the figure of the dilettante embraces with passion and freedom the enjoyment of the arts and sensory pleasures, regardless of professional or academic rigidity.
Loose Pages
Motive and Chance
The motivations for reading and writing are the product of chance and coincidence, not logic.
Inquisitions
Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: José Prats Sariol
A variation on the «Proust Questionnaire». For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social skills.