De libertades fantasmas o de la literatura como juego

Essays that defend the playful side of literature, and the subjects usually thought minor or not serious, as a realm of freedom. The idea behind them comes from Cervantes imagining Don Quixote in prison, or any prisoner improvising a love song or a mocking one: such moments are the phantom freedoms, perhaps the only ones there are. The author shares his reading of classics, known and less known, as if in lively conversation. In one essay he goes back past the Pinocchio of his childhood, and past the cartoon that warns against lying, to Carlo Collodi's original puppet of 1883, a story full of nights, distances, cruelty and hunger about a piece of wood that wants to become human.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

203 pages in the original

First published

2013 by Fondo de Cultura Económica

Author's age

79 when first published

ISBN

9786071616432 (original)