Sous le sable

Under the sand (sous le sable), is an allegory, a reflection and an invitation to keep alive traces of our memory. The title refers to a term coined by the poet Federico García Lorca.
To my mind, part of Borges' metaphysical thinking would be comparable to that of Lorca, who advocated the urgent need to create a new theatre - a "theatre under the sand", as he himself calls it in The Audience - whose purpose was to expose the prevailing hypocrisy and force its audience to confront their own contradictions through visceral language. Leaving aside the technical difficulties involved in his proposal, the author was aware that the greatest obstacle he faced was to reach an audience whose convictions he wanted to question in order to tear them down and bury them. One could only hope for rejection, which is why the playwright never saw them performed during his lifetime.
As an allegory, the elaboration of the sound discourse of the work aims to show a
sonorous image to that which has no image. Drawing from the abstract, making
"visible" what is only conceptual.
In a sonorous key, Lorca's masks versus invite the listener to a contemplative and
expectant listening. The masks and mirrors define a reality in perpetual change, a kind of dream where the identities of the characters are constantly changing. Diving into the interior of consciousness, questioning the notion of individuality, we are not one, but many. We have multiple faces or facets, masks.