Soiza Reilly and his hard board of brain autopsies. Celebrities and insane men, the new rare

Abstract

In the wide spectrum of genres of his narrative —interviews, chronicles, stories, plays, novels, as well as in the paratexts— Soiza Reilly constructs himself as a lyrical psychiatrist —half aristocratic and plebeian, believer and nihilist, serious and clownesque— who, in the very oscillation of his madness, discovers strange, unprecedented dimensions of reality, which defy common sense. His devilish interviews, in this sense, pay attention to unknown aspects of celebrities who desecrate media and academic idealization. As a reporter and chronicler for Caras y Caretas, Soiza deals primarily with celebrities —the eminent social subjects that institutions, the media and the public erect— over the rare —like Rubén Darío—, the disruptive and exceptional figures of contemporaneity that are attractive to the reader and also to himself. His narrative, in this sense, composes a kaleidoscope of madness —from the alienated alienist’s own perspective— in which documentary fragments of current madmen (celebrities and rares) are combined, absurdly, for the consumption of the public, to which the same Psychosocial theory also associates with madness, due to its low social extraction in which all ills and pathologies would be condensed.