Diabulus in musica (2001) by Espido Freire (Bilbao, 1974) offers a “musical hell” where music becomes an object of displeasure and a channel for the Kierkegaardian “sickness unto death”, anguish. In addition to music, Espido Freire develops other transtextual resources as Nordic mythology, the painting Saint Georges and the dragon by Paolo Uccello and the tragicomedy El caballero de Olmedo by Lope de Vega. She plunges us onto a peculiar game of mirrors where nothing is what it seems to be: (dis)affection confuses the fate and the identity of the characters, bound to suffering and, finally, to suicide. In order to explain these aspects, we develop an interdisciplinary methodology, especially through the use of narratological, philosophical and sociological sources.
Keywords:
Espido Freire, Diabulus in musica, Music, Anguish, Suicide
Rodríguez, S. (2018). When music becomes suffering. Games of (dis)affection and identities, transtextuality, anguish and suicide in Diabulus in musica by Espido Freire. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (98), pp. 327–352. Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/51838
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