Nihilismo y voluntad de engaño en El astillero, de Juan Carlos Onetti

En este artículo se estudia la novela El astillero de Juan Carlos Onetti a la luz de los conceptos nietzscheanos de"nihilismo" y"voluntad de engaño"

Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill: Aeschylus and Plato’s Cave to Create a Dark Drama

The fundamental debt of E. O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra to Aeschylus, and to a lesser degree to Sophocles and Euripides, has been always recognised but, according to the author’s hypothesis, O’Neill might have taken advantage of the Platonic image of the cave in order to magnify his both Greek and American drama. It is certainly a risky hypothesis that stricto sensu cannot be proved, but it is also reader’s right to evaluate the plausibility and the possible dramatic benefit derived from such a reading. Besides indicating to what degree some of the essential themes of Platonic philosophy concerning darkness, light or the flight from the prison of the material world are not extraneous to O’Neill’s work, the author proves he was aware of the Platonic image of the cave thanks to its capital importance in the work of some of his intellectual mentors such as F. Nietzsche or Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless, the most significant aim of the author’s article is to emphasize both the dramatic benefits and the logical reflections derived, as said before, from reading little by little O’Neill’s drama bearing in mind the above mentioned Platonic parameter.

Cervells autistes

Diuen els tòpics que als homes els costa mostrar i explicar els sentiments, i que les dones tenen més dificultats per orientar-se i interpretar els mapes. Hi ha molts llibres i articles que parlen amb més o menys encert de les aparents diferències psicològiques entre sexes, i hi ha moltes dites i acudits sobre aquesta qüestió, la major part dels quals tenen connotacions discriminatòries. Nietzsche ho resumeix molt bé en un dels seus aforismes: "Els homes i les dones no deixen de mal entendre's perquè van a tempos diferents" [...].