Guided Experiences (An Old and Rare Book)

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This book is divided into two parts. The first, called "Narrations," is a set of twelve stories, constituting the most dense and complex part of the book. The second, under the title 'Games with Images, consists of nine descriptions, simpler, but also more dynamic, than those of the first part.

The book can be considered from different points of view The most superficial presents a series of short stories with happy endings. These have the light characteristic of drafts that authors produce for practice and only as "pastimes." According to this view, they are simple literary exercises.

Another point of view shows the work as a series of psychological practices supported by literary forms. This becomes clearer as it is further elaborated in the notes and comments which I have added at the end.

We know all kinds of narratives written in the first person. This "first person" is usually not the reader but the author. In this book, Silo corrects such a long- standing lack of courtesy, making the mise scene of each story a framework so that the reader can fill the scenes with himself or herself and his or her own initiatives.

It must be noted that in all literary works, the reader may be more or less identified with the characters, but always recognizes, at the moment or afterwards, differences between the actor who is included in the play and the observer that is "outside" the production, who is none other than himself/herself. In this book, the opposite happens: the character is the observer, agent and receiver of actions and emotions.

Whether we like these Experiences or not, we must recognize at least that we are in the presence of a novel literary initiative, and that this, undoubtedly, does not happen every day.