«No puedo menos que felicitar a Solares por haberme hecho legible y soportable este delirio y adem s por sugerir la posibilidad de que estas formas y estasim genes tremendas tengan un mensaje simb lico ulterior. -Salvador Elizondo, Unomasuno Descrito por primera vez en el a o de 1813, el delirium tremens nunca hab a 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 ntomas que se desarrollan en el alcoh lico cr nico despu s de la interrupci n brusca de una ingesti n prolongada e intensa de bebidas embriagantes. Las alucinaciones visuales son quiz el s ntoma m s dram tico de este cuadro, y es justamente esa esfera sensoperceptiva alterada del alcoh lico la puerta de entrada por la que Solares se introduce. El reto: aventurarse en la profundidad del sujeto y contemplar c mo la experiencia alucinatoria puede cambiar su trayectoria existencial -Del pr logo del Dr. Jos Antonio Elizondo L pez, creador y excoordinador del Programa de Rehabilitaci n de Alcoh licos del Hospital Psiqui trico 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 pez, creator and former coordinator of the Alcohol Rehabilitation Program at the IMSS Psychiatric Hospital
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