Thank you Tim. The title is just an infinitesimal homage to one of our best writers, Ernesto Sabato, who wrote a study so named: "Hombres y Engranajes".
You are right. Argentine writers are mostly unknown. Even Jorge Luis Borges, who mostly wrote in English, is not. As for this short paper, basically poses the problem of man and machinery in the modern world (1951) or how the machines are impacting our essence as humans. You are forcing me to re-read the book which I will. Just in case, I found a translation to English here [link] Thank you for the interest!
looks really interesting, thanks for looking it up for me..I shall read it with a glass of wine later My wife studied philosophy so it is familiar and i find the passion and outlook of people from the war period fascinating..some great lines even in the opener..pertinent to what we do here '' I returned to that incorporeal universe, to the sort of refuge of a tall mountain where the noise of men did not reach, nor its confused contents. During various years I studied, frenzied, almost with furor, abstract things, giving me injections of translucent opium, living in the artificial paradise of ideal objects ''
PS: I like that gear
Thank you for the interest!
universe, to the sort of refuge of a tall mountain where the noise of men did
not reach, nor its confused contents. During various years I studied,
frenzied, almost with furor, abstract things, giving me injections of
translucent opium, living in the artificial paradise of ideal objects ''