The Hearing Trumpet

10-06-2026

No tengo tiempo en este preciso momento para desarrollar mis temas con este libro. Lo dejaré anotado en ideas. De momento, quédense con algunas citas del epílogo por Olga Tokarczuk, que me hace o entender por qué me gusta, o que me guste más:

The Hearing Trumpet forthrightly introduces eccentricity into the feminist debate as a perspective that’s a legitimate alternative to the patriarchal one: whatever is eccentric is Goddess-like in spirit.

Kitschy and lacking taste—a charge that is so often flung at women. Apparently Joseph Conrad said that the best criterion for the quality of a book is that women don’t like it—because women can only like bad literature. Well, I have to admit that I like what Conrad wrote very much. Sincerely. All right. So be it. Kitsch is our ocean.

That is why the philosophy of eccentricity expressed in The Hearing Trumpet is connected with age. It can be treated as a special message from the old to the young, going against the current of time. We must do eccentric things. Where everyone is doing This, we must do That. While the whole center is noisily establishing its order, we shall remain on the periphery—we won’t let ourselves be drawn into the center, we shall ignore it and surpass it.