BOOK / FAIRS AND ATTRACTIONS. Juan Eduardo Cirlot

LITERATURE / POETRY

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 house of laughter or the magic grottos. Also, of course, the automatons that predict the future. Each one will represent an opportunity to introduce beneath the fine surface of reality the depth of destiny, chance, misery or death. The attentive guide of the poet and art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot (1916-1973) will introduce you, through the amusement park, to a world of relationships and symbols suggested sometimes by paintings, sometimes by texts, sometimes simply by proper names and various allusions from very distant themes. The text thus becomes a boat that, with its incessant coming and going between one thing and another, opens up, as if by magic, unknown horizons. And isn't that the ultimate reason why people go to the fair? The attraction of emptiness and the attempt to fill that abyss that is the world.

Original title: FERIAS Y ATRACCIONES
Author: Juan Eduardo Cirlot
No. Pages: 90
Size: 21 x 10 cm.
Weight: 90 grams
Genre: Poetry
Language: Spanish
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Wunderkammer
Printed in Spain
Year: 2024