Presentation of “Little Man and Big Man or poems of Me and Myself”
Presentation of the book “Little Man and Big Man or Poems of Me and Myself,” composed of poems by Juan Barja and illustrations by the artist Carlos Bloch. Both participated in the event along with Félix Duque, Fernando Guerrero, and Juan Mayorga.
"A few days later, the Big Man met the little man again and said to him, after greeting him:
"It's only right that you are the way you are. If there were only great men like me, there wouldn't be room for everyone, because, however tiny you may be, you still take up space. That minimal presence becomes a gigantic hindrance."
To this, the little man said nothing and, smiling somewhat tenderly, simply turned to the side.
Will these men eventually discover that each only exists in the other, that difference must return to unity, for their truth lies in difference being one? This is what Hegel asserts in his Introduction to the History of Philosophy. And this is what the two men who appear here debate, about this, and against this. And then they disappear.