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Rafael Argullol

Human Dance

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Acantilado

May 2023

1040 pages

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Original Title: Danza humana

With Danza humana, Rafael Argullol continues the ambitious vital and literary project he set out on with his Visión desde el fondo del mar (View from the Bottom of the Sea). His various intimate experiences are woven together with notable moments in the history of humanity to give shape to a captivating story in which religion, science, philosophy, and art offer crucial keys for trying to decipher—if not embrace—the enigma of consciousness. In these pages, Argullol sets out on a transformative journey that leads him to ponder nature, art, cities, women’s bodies, desire, words, and even the chance-governed universe as he seeks fragments of eternity in the fathomless depths of existence.

Praises

“It is no exaggeration to state that, with this work, Argullol, has established himself as a contemporary classic.”
Manuel Barrios, El Cultural

“Argullol offers a stimulating constellation of essential prose pieces which showcases his singularity as a writer.”
J. F. Yvars, La Vanguardia

“Argullol creates and re-creates a world where beauty, the sacralisation of the pagan and the religiosity of the agnostic triumph, and the reader is completely engrossed.”
Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia

“Danza humana is an extensive volume consisting of ten books exploring different problems. The reader is witness to 333 scenes—and this is no random number—which, like the fragments of a kaleidoscope, are interwoven in a complex spinning mechanism.”
Albert Lladó, Cultura/s La Vanguardia

“Here we have an individual whose observations of the external world go back to his own life pulse, speaking of the world as he travels around it and tells the story.”
Toni Montesinos, La Razón

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Acantilado

May 2023

1040 pages

Narrative