Podría comer piedras : Vida y crucifixión de Edward H. Gibson

Afflicted with a rare genetic condition, Edward H. Gibson was born without the capacity to feel physical pain. His body registered neither injuries nor accidents, and he was presented to the New York Medical Society as the first known case of congenital total analgesia. This book is a compelling study of pain, its symbolic dimension, and the discrepancies between actual experience and its representation. Relegated to the status of a freak, the protagonist sublimates himself in a desperate or ironic gesture: crucifying himself in public before a crowd. Halfway between a narrative essay and a philosophical reflection, Barba transforms this biological anomaly into an allegory of alienation and otherness.