Cuentos filosóficos del mundo entero : El círculo de los mentirosos

“Like worms that, it is said, fertilize, blindly, the earth they burrow through, stories are passed from mouth to ear and have long spoken what nothing else can.” With these words, Jean-Claude Carrière describes the power that stories have wielded over humanity since the dawn of time. In the beginning, our ancestors told each other myths brimming with reality, for their author was the cosmos. Then came the storytellers, who invented tales: they were the first liars. But is there truth in a lie if it illuminates the world? A screenwriter, playwright, and brilliant collaborator of Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière dedicated twenty-five years of his life to collecting anonymous stories from all eras and traditions: Zen and Sufi, Chinese and Jewish, Indian and African, American and European, which he then transcribed and wove together into an infinite narrative of narratives. The result is this compendium, which becomes a philosophical manual for explaining the world through our stories. A delightful and serendipitous book, entertaining and thought-provoking, where darkness and fiction are as valuable, if not more so, than objective truth.