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

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7 April, 2024

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

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11 December, 2022

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

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1 May, 2022

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.

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10 April, 2022

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

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18 January, 2022

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

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12 September, 2021

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

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20 June, 2021

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

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26 May, 2021

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