Los sueños y los días

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Ante los conflictos y los horrores desatados por el hombre, se ha venido dando por sentada en los últimos decenios la certidumbre de que «el juicio de la historia» acaba viniendo a restituir tarde o temprano, siquiera moralmente, el justo orden de las cosas. Sin embargo, el resurgimiento en los últimos tiempos de fenómenos como los supremacismos, el hipernacionalismo, el racismo y las actualizaciones posmodernas del fascismo llevan a plantearse seriamente la validez de este aserto. Tomando tres casos paradigmáticos -el Tribunal Militar Internacional de Nuremberg de 1946, la Comisión...

Ernesto Bassi traza la configuración de un espacio geográfico que él llama el Gran Caribe transimperial entre 1760 y 1860. Centrándose en la costa caribeña de Nueva Granada (actual Colombia), el autor demuestra que los residentes de la región no vivieron sus vidas delimitados por fronteras geopolíticas, por el contrario, las actividades transfronterizas de marineros, comerciantes, revolucionarios, indígenas y otros, reflejaban sus percepciones del Caribe como un espacio transimperial donde circulaba el comercio, la información y las personas, cumpliendo y desafiando las regulaciones...

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...