Un Salto Gigantesco

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Eduardo Matos Moctezuma congrega aquí las voces de Hernán Cortés, fray Bernardino de Sahagún y Bernal Díaz del Castillo, para relatarnos la conquista espiritual de Tenochtitlan, no sin contemplar el aspecto de imposición y resistencia de conquistadores y conquistados.

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Todo hecho humano es, en último término, personal: los llamados hechos colectivos son el resultado de una serie de hechos personales. La acción individual y la colectiva son inseparables y ambas se influyen mutuamente de un modo continuo. No se puede desconocer la influencia de poderosas personalidades sobre su época, ni tampoco que esas personalidades no pueden sustraerse al «espíritu del tiempo». Hay que situar a los hombres de carne y hueso en el marco de las sociedades en que viven. Estas páginas intentan adentrarse en la vida de cuatro hombres. Vidas que se encuentran y...