La casa habitada por el árbol

This book arose from the contemplation, on the outskirts of Varanasi, of a tree growing inside a house, its branches peeking through the windows. This appropriation of human space by nature gives rise to the deconstruction of concepts such as "inside" and "outside," "I" and "others," "nature" and "culture," "myth" and "reality," "order" and "chaos," "life" and "death," and so on. It leads to the conclusion that all these opposites are the same and that any duality is nothing more than a mere illusion. Supported by solid philosophical foundations, The House Inhabited by the Tree speaks, among other things, of that part of ourselves that dwells in others and that we are unaware of; of the dissolution of myth when it is traced back to its origin; of truth, which, as Nietzsche asserted, has forgotten its condition as an illusion; of the gaze that erases and rewrites reality and, ultimately, of the longing for the past and the hope for the future, two mirages of the present that make us look, like Janus, in two opposite directions ignoring that, as one of the poems says, "the future is nothing more than a past that awaits."