anxieties of carnivorous nothing by Alejandro Jodorowsky
I find it very difficult to comment on this book and at the same time I find it impossible not to.
The story begins with the appearance of three actors who can not remember anything of himself, immortal, neutral, in a country devastated by the dictatorship of a mysterious general, who whale on television portable (or not) that are found everywhere, haranguing them from the faithful (but not), constantly reminding his overwhelming superiority.
then continues with the metamorphosis of the three, the loss of memory becomes less and less important because their task, their being, is shaped according to the people they meet, the situations they face.
This book is a cross CONTINUOUS symbols, subtext of a poem and brutal at the same time delicate and simple singing to people in power for life and human extinction, at all, at all. The constant assertion of non-identity of the characters compared to the destructive super-ego of the General brings to mind the significance of the individual, his model compared to a world unknown, the value of the word existence. The condor, which feeds on the remains of corpses, is the symbol of life: all the rot will be resurrected and "different" the only bearers of salvation (if it ever will exist a) in their uniqueness so close to the General that everything can , eternal and divinely omniscient, not the guerrillas, so far: always ready to be destroyed for an ideal that will bring only pain and valuable blood, wasted.
It 's a book at times difficult to read, well written but circular, heavily visionary, but it always pays off the fatigue that sometimes do you empathize with the characters with a heavy feeling of emptiness, that void that must be compulsively filled, that pushes you to construct new thoughts to do it, maybe new worlds, little worlds unimportant, or not.
It reminded me of Orwell's 1984, but also (in very few steps) Naked Lunch and Nova Express, Burroughs, the Orphic Songs of Bell and the day that Teresa was angry with God, always Jodorowsy, even if these fears his carnivorous of nothing is much more profound and complex, so that all These examples are useless.
Absolutely nothing.
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