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Love and Terror of the Words is an autobiographic fiction which looks at life from the eyes of a child and through the prism of words. The twenty-two chapters relate intimate experiences in search of the origin of the languages of the world and of nature, introducing the readers to a universal question: how does language structure knowledge? Words will never be quite the same after reading this unnerving book. Amor y terror de las palabras es una ficcion autobiografica que invita a observar la vida desde los ojos de un nino, a traves de las palabras. Los veintidos capitulos relatan experiencias intimas en busca del origen de las lenguas del mundo y la naturaleza, introduciendo al lector a una pregunta universal: como el lenguaje estructura el conocimiento. Las palabras ya nunca seran las mismas tras la lectura de este libro pavoroso.

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J. M. Briceno Guerrero (1929-2014) is a Venezuelan poet and philosopher. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy and Philology in Vienna and worked for many years as a Professor at the Universidad de Los Andes (Merida). His many publications were awarded national prizes in Venezuela and were internationally recognized by UNESCO. Translations of his work are available in French and German, and numerous groups of scholars and loving readers preserve his legacy by promoting the study of Latin American thought and of Classical and modern languages. Born 1971; studied Classics at Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela; 2001 BA; teaching Spanish, academic publishing (Islamic Texts Society; The Matheson Trust) in the UK, specialised in Arabic-English bilingual typesetting and Comparative Religion; 2018 PhD from the Warburg Institute, University of London; presently post-doctoral research in Lisbon for the ERC Rutter Project in History of Science.

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