Óscar Carrera

Óscar Carrera estudió filosofía, estética e indología en las universidades de Sevilla, París y Leiden. Ha publicado "La prisión evanescente" (2014), "Malas hierbas: historia del rock experimental (1959-1979)" (2014), "El dios sin nombre: símbolos y leyendas del Camino de Santiago" (2018), "El Palmar de Troya: historia del cisma español" (2019), "Mitología humana" (2019) y la novela "Los ecos de la luz" (2020). oscar.carrera@hotmail.es

Author's Articles

‘The Satanic Verses’: Magic for the Modern Man

Culture

The Satanic Verses, an epopee of dreams, visions, and transmutations, presents literature as the last bastion of miracles in the modern world.

‘The Satanic Verses’: The Story Without the Story

Culture

Both the fictional and the real story of The Satanic Verses are the result of a complex interplay between faith and scepticism, magic and naturalism, fact and fiction, and, most notably, between each other.

The creak of the centuries: ‘The Time Machine’ by H. G. Wells

Culture

H.G. Wells was able to construct in The Time Machine one of the most enigmatic twilights ever postulated for the human odyssey.

Sandpaper souls: Suicide, Throbbing Gristle and Public Image Ltd.

Move your soul Music

Sandpaper souls: Suicide, Throbbing Gristle and Public Image Ltd., nihilistic horizons that in no way foreshadow the rampant commercialism that would take over the eighties.

Brian Eno, the change from liquid to gaseous

Music

Brian Eno had the look you should ask of an experimental musician, the androgyny of glam rock, with stunning blond hair and flamboyant suits.

What Tolstoy didn’t confess

Culture

Leo Tolstoy has found the meaning of life in a sincere faith, but also one of expediency, for he will manipulate it in order to remake it in his own image and likeness.

Syd Barrett returns home

Music

Syd Barrett was ploughing through the green meadows of England by the side of the road. That morning he packed his luggage in a cluttered room in London.

Bob Dylan and the art of convincing

Music

We maintain that Bob Dylan, now in his eightieth year, is the most important songwriter that popular music has produced in the last century.