Trilogía del infinito
Angélica Liddell

FICTION | 2016 | 414 pages

A delirious Aeneid, a war waged for the nostalgia of beauty in search of the ungraspable, the sacred. The three texts gathered here, “Esta breve tragedia de la carne”, “¿Qué haré yo con esta espada?“ (new version), and "Genesis VI: 6-7," are a rebellion against rationalism and are born from the clash between the prose of the State and the rapture of the Spirit.

If we were to establish a classic narrative thread, we would be talking about the story of a woman who—guided by the poets Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, or the cannibalistic writer Issei Sagawa—has desired to kill herself and others since birth and unleashes her homicidal tendencies, her authentic desires, in fiction. Therefore, all her anguish stems from the dilemma between word and deed, that is, between poetry and life. For how can we transform real violence into poetry to bring us into contact with our true nature? For Angélica Liddell, the human being can only be created by destroying him, that is, by breaking the law, and this can be done, according to the author, through the "supermorality" of poetry.

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“With Trilogía del Infinito, the author of La casa de la fuerza continues to dance to avoid death; on the outskirts of logos, like a foreign Medea in the 21st century; for tragedy, her God, or for what amounts to the same thing, as every reader of the Old Testament knows: sex and violence.”
— María Velasco, Primer Acto