Overview
In this collection of texts conceived in different parts of the world, Michèle Petit analyzes the place of art and literature in the context of the crises that have been multiplying in recent years: wars, climate change, pandemics, etc. Here it is about the beauty that allows the worst to be transfigured after a tragedy; of cultural transmission in exile, which is the fate of so many children, women and men today; of the way in which language, when approached to song, allows us to tune in to space and to what we call nature; of the dreams of which we are made and that literature helps us rediscover; of libraries, those houses of thought where new forms of coexistence are invented; from the discreet company of books during the covid-19 pandemic… Michèle Petit reminds us that for human beings the utilitarian is never enough and that we cannot reduce ourselves to economic variables or our social roles: we are also, and perhaps above all, poetic animals.
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Somos animales poéticos / We are poetic animals: Algunos usos de los libros y el arte en estos tiempos críticos / Some uses of books and art in these critical times
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