Saturday, March 15, 2014
Private Dining Room (Omni Shoreham)
In Inès de las Sierras, Charles Nodier presents the mystery of the “European accomplished history” that meets the mystery of the “fantastic story” creating a cosmogony of shadows that originates a “resurrected story” that turns into “the possible history.” In this succession of reflections, conceived by a ludic esthetic palette, there are elements that belong to each of these worlds that behave in a fascinating way, keeping resemblances and experiencing modifications as they migrate from their respective fields to congregate in the welcoming world of literary fantasy. The story of the ‘other’, the story of the neighbor is always fascinating, especially when there is a nexus between the personal and collective History. It is when Charles Nodier chooses the neighbor’s historical event as a detour, that he finds the freedom to express the repressed. The scientific and the esthetic venues intermingle their paths taking the reader ultimately to the fantastic world of the supernatural. The historian-archeologist that wants to recreate the past intersects with the historian-literary writer that shares in the curiosity and thirst of knowledge. Each one takes a different route while guarding the same point of departure. History, being present in this literary narrative, produces an illusion of reality. Nonetheless, the reader is detoured without warning to the world of the fantastic. At this moment, the unknown replaces the known, the assurance is supplanted by doubt and fear, and clarity is exchanged by an elusive mystery while giving to the resurrected History a new meaning.
