Origin: Spain
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En Presencia de Schopenhauer (in Spanish)
Michel Houellebecq
Synopsis "En Presencia de Schopenhauer (in Spanish)"
Todo empezo en la decada de los ochenta, cuando un Houellebecq veinteanero se topo por azar en una biblioteca parisina con un libro de aforismos de Schopenhauer y tuvo una revelacion: descubrio en el a un alma gemela, un alter ego del pasado, un maestro. Descubrio a alguien que le hizo sentirse menos solo. Y esa admiracion acabo desembocando en este libro, una suerte de dialogo entre dos personas separadas por el tiempo pero unidas por la fiereza del pensamiento; dos voces indomitas, a contracorriente, de un pesimismo lucido e incomodo. Houellebecq elabora una perspicaz lectura de la obra del filosofo aleman que acaba funcionando como un juego de espejos. Y asi, Houellebecq ilumina a Schopenhauer y Schopenhauer ilumina a Houellebecq. / It all started in the eighties, when a twenty-year-old Houellebecq met randomly in a Parisian library with a book of aphorisms by Schopenhauer and had a revelation: he discovered in him a soul mate, an alter ego of the past, a teacher. He discovered someone who made him feel less lonely. And that admiration ended up leading to this book, a kind of dialogue between two people separated by time but united by the fierceness of thought.