Colloquium on ”El teatro del espíritu”, by Federico Barea
Friday, 16 September 2022, Olot
Colloquium on ”El teatro del espíritu”, by Federico Barea

On Friday was held at Cafè Art Fontanella XII, Olot, a small colloquium about "El teatro del espíritu", the book that compiles a great part of the papers left unpublished by Carlos Rivarola. A posthumous poet given his early death in 1975. Rivarola combines, in unprecedented poetics, the sum of all the tensions of the time: the political effervescence, the nihilistic malditism, the erotic and the esoteric, betting for a suprasensible experience. The rescue of the writings, poems and essays, which were kept for 45 years in a piece of furniture belonging to the Rivarola’s family, was work of Federico Barea, who presented it giving a historical and stylistic context. Fragments of his essays and some poems were also read to confirm Rivarola’s claim that "In spite of all the pain in the world, Eros exists".
