Delirium Tremens (Spanish Edition)

-Salvador Elizondo, Unomasuno

Descrito por primera vez en el a隳 de 1813, el delirium tremens nunca hab燰 sido abordado desde un horizonte literario y descriptivo, tal como lo ha hecho Ignacio Solares --con indudable originalidad y talento-- en esta obra. El delirium tremens es un conjunto de s璯tomas que se desarrollan en el alcoh鏊ico cr鏮ico despu廥 de la interrupci鏮 brusca de una ingesti鏮 prolongada e intensa de bebidas embriagantes.

Las alucinaciones visuales son quiz?el s璯toma m嫳 dram嫢ico de este cuadro, y es justamente esa esfera sensoperceptiva alterada del alcoh鏊ico la puerta de entrada por la que Solares se introduce. El reto: aventurarse en la profundidad del sujeto y contemplar c鏔o la experiencia alucinatoria puede cambiar su trayectoria existencial.

-Del pr鏊ogo del Dr. Jos?Antonio Elizondo L鏕ez, creador y excoordinador del Programa de Rehabilitaci鏮 de Alcoh鏊icos del Hospital Psiqui嫢rico del IMSS

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"I can't help but congratulate Solares for making this delirium readable and bearable for me, and for suggesting the possibility that these tremendous forms and images carry a deeper symbolic message." -Salvador Elizondo, Unomasuno

First described in 1813, delirium tremens had never before been explored from such a literary and descriptive perspective as it is here by Ignacio Solares--with undeniable originality and talent. Delirium tremens is a set of symptoms that develop in a chronic alcoholic after the abrupt interruption of a prolonged and intense intake of alcohol.

The visual hallucinations are perhaps the most dramatic symptom of this condition, and it is precisely through that altered sensory-perceptual sphere of the alcoholic that Solares enters. The challenge: to venture into the depths of the self and observe how the hallucinatory experience can alter a person's existential path. -From the prologue by Dr. Jos?Antonio Elizondo L鏕ez, creator and former coordinator of the Alcohol Rehabilitation Program at the IMSS Psychiatric Hospital