The Book of the Grotesque

BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE (SCHMERZENSMANN IV, 2006)

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were all beautiful. (…) And then the people came along. Each as he appeared snatched up one of the truths and some who were quite strong snatched up a dozen of them. It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Winesburg, Ohio

(1919)

BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE (ROMEU, 2010)

  En verdad, no sé como resolver este problema que Dios ha inscrito en mi carne

ANDRÉ GIDE



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 /Suaves sonidos (I), 

sonidos redondos nos envuelven (II)