Ferias y atracciones

Lucky reader: you have in your hands an invitation to enjoy a detailed tour of an amusement park with no specific location, perhaps in Barcelona, perhaps in the fifties. In it you will find everything from electric boats or dioramas to the most sophisticated attractions, the highway, the enchanted city, the funhouse or the magical caves. Also, of course, the automatons that guess the future. Each one will represent an opportunity to introduce under the thin surface of reality the depth of destiny, chance, misery or death. The attentive guide of the poet and art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot will introduce you, like the theme park, into a world of relationships and symbols suggested sometimes by paintings, sometimes by texts, sometimes simply by proper names and various allusions. coming from very distant subjects. The text thus becomes a boat that, with its incessant coming and going between one and the other, opens up unknown horizons for us, as if by magic. And isn't that the ultimate reason people go to the fair? The attraction of the void and the attempt to fill that abyss that is the world.