La Felicidad más Allá de la Ilusión Book by Gabriel Rolón - Editorial Planeta (Spanish Edition)

• Title: Happiness
• Author: Gabriel Rolón
• Pages: 392
• ISBN: 9789504976752

Like something impossible and like a chimera, like an end and also like an imperative, the idea of happiness challenges us more than ever in the times we live. "How to be happy?" This sentence that hovers over us as a mandate of the modern world has imposed itself to dazzle us and make us lose sight of what should be the central question: "What is happiness?"

In his new book, Gabriel Rolón proposes to retrace the path. To disassemble clichés and preconceptions to reveal what lies beyond that illusion that is sold as a panacea and is nothing more than a trap. Between Psychoanalysis and art, between philosophy and literature, he then unfolds his roadmap, a map of readings that range from classical mythology to Byung-Chul Han, passing through Freud, Lacan, Borges, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Einstein, Alejandro Dolina, Ana Frank, Bertrand Russell, and Comte-Sponville, among many others.

Once again, as in his previous works and true to that style that has made him one of the most read authors in recent decades, Rolón invites us to think against the grain of light fashions. And it is there, in that uncomfortable yet longing zone of life, where Happiness becomes an indispensable, lucid, and humane essay.