The Electric Comedy - Softcover

PEREZ, ROLANDO

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887276238 ISBN 13: 9781887276238

Publisher: Cool Grove Press, 2020

Synopsis

The Electric Comedy is a retelling of the ancient epic about the perennial war between the forces of greed, power, ignorance and (virtual) sex on one side and the deployments of generosity, empowerment, love and enlightened example, on the other, brought to life against the backdrop of the inescapable hyper-reality of our digital web. Grave questions emerge from the deep. Who is helping whom? Who is the spider and who is the fly? Is anyone winning in this scenario?Just as Dante's Divina Commedia dealt with the political and social conditions of Renaissance Italy, Rolando Perez's The Electric Comedy takes the reader through a journey of the soul, in the contemporary global landscape of simulated love, internet capitalism and the new metaphysics of virtual realities. With God dead and Minerva slain, Dante's guiding light is transformed into the artificial light of electricity and a new conception of "vision" with no possibility of redemption. Everyone from Plato to Wired, from Lao-tzu to Bill Gates and beyond end up in the pages of this book. Perez's guide is not Virgil but some old maps left behind by Nietzsche.

About this title

About the Authors

Rolando Perez is the author of The Divine Duty of Servants and The Lining of Our Souls. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Cuban born Rolando Perez is the author of numerous books on a variety of subjects ranging from philosophy and literary criticism to poetry and drama. Some of his published titles include The Divine Duty of Servants: a book of Worship based on the drawings of Bruno Schulz, On An(Archy) and Schizoanalysis, Severo Sarduy and the Religion of the Text, and The Lining of Our Souls (based on selected paintings of Edward Hopper.) He has also written over 15 plays that have received production in NYC. Mr. Perez has a B.A. in philosophy from Trenton State College, an M.A. in philosophy, an M.A. in Spanish (both from Stony Brook), and a Masters in Library Science from Rutgers University. He is a librarian and the Spanish/French bibliographer and teaches courses at Hunter College, NY.

From the Back Cover

Just as Dante’s Divine Comedy dealt with political and social conditions of Renaissance Italy, Rolando Perez’s The Electric Comedy takes the reader through a journey of the soul in the contemporary global landscape of simulated love, Internet capitalism and the new metaphysics of virtual realities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cool Grove Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1887276238
• ISBN 13: 9781887276238
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Perillo Michele
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164