Cómeme o bébeme: Relatos de estados alterados, Lewis Carroll y la experiencia psicodélica en el siglo XIX

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the discovery of a paper called Revisiting Wonderland (by Michael Carmichael in Psycodelia Britannica edited by Antonio Melecchi, 1997), this paper is a journey to the world of Lewis Carroll and Wonderland. It starts with a visit to the Bodlian Library in Oxford, trying to get hold of some texts edited by the time that Lewis was writing his stories, During the Nineteenth Century in England, artists and science people were experimenting with new substances, which at the time were not forbidden. The transformations that Alice experienced in her travel through Wonderland are caused by her ingestion of different substances. Images and metaphors are part of the complex creative process. The aim of this article is to present some of the relationships between literature, art and substance use, through an historical approach. As a traveller story, this is a way of introducing these ideas.

Keywords:

Lewis Carroll

Inglaterra

arte

literatura y drogas

metáforas

Lewis Carroll

England

art

literature and drugs

metaphors

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