Description
Inner War
Book Summary
This book brings together the poetry and poetic prose of Angélica Liddell written between 2019 and 2020, a period marked by mourning and introspection. Far from a conventional work, *Inner War* follows in the tradition of the mystics, exploring fury, devotion, and ecstasy as paths toward a truth stripped of artifice. The author writes at the dictation of the untimely, subverting the limits of language to corner the vanity of words and leave the narrative raw. An abrasive and savage literary experience that persists in its mission to confront the trivialized sacred.
What is it about?
The work presents itself as a spiritual war diary where the author wages a battle against the trivialization of the sacred. Through writing that transitions between invective and prayer, Liddell delves into a wild mysticism that seeks not comfort, but naked truth. The book is structured around the experience of grief, not as a conventional mourning process, but as a battlefield where beauty and affliction, voluptuousness and fury collide. Each page is an attempt to excoriate language, to strip it of its seduction to reach a state of awe and mystery, where the culmination of love is laughter and the word becomes a dagger.
Main themes
- Contemporary mysticism and the experience of the sacred in a secularized world.
- Grief and affliction as creative and radically transformative processes.
- A critique of the vanity of language and the search for an authentic and stark expression.
- The duality between destructive fury and ecstasy as paths to knowledge.
- The subversion of the boundaries between poetry, theater, and poetic prose.
Who is it recommended for?
For readers of contemporary poetry who are looking for a radical voice, uncompromising and with a strong performative charge. Also for those interested in literature that explores the limits of language and mystical experience from a critical, contemporary perspective. It is an ideal work for followers of Angélica Liddell’s work and for those who appreciate writing as an act of resistance and confrontation.
What this book offers
- An intense and transformative reading experience that challenges literary and emotional conventions.
- A deep reflection on grief and the possibility of finding beauty and joy in affliction.
- An example of writing that rebels against superficiality, seeking an essential and stark truth.
- An original approach to mysticism, removed from dogmas and centered on subjective experience and creative fury.
Technical data
- Author: Liddell, Angélica
- Publisher: Ediciones La Uña Rota
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: POETRY, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- Collection: LIBROS ROBADOS
- Binding: Paperback
- Publication date: October 2020
- Number of pages: 240
- Weight: 393 g
Editorial review
*Inner War* is a work that leaves no one indifferent. Its primary value lies in the brutal honesty with which Angélica Liddell approaches pain and the search for meaning, using a language that is both a weapon and a refuge. For its target audience—readers willing to be challenged and to traverse complex emotional territories—this book offers a unique literary experience, free from complacency and firmly anchored in the tradition of poetry as knowledge and revelation.