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«El collar de la paloma» (Tauq al-hamamah), traducido en 1967 al castellano por el estudioso del Islam Emilio García Gómez, es un «tratado sobre el amor y los amantes» de raíz neoplatónica que contiene una reflexión poética y autobiográfica, sobre las formas del amor profano y divino en la cultura musulmana. Escrita en una prosa elegante en que se insertan versos, esta obra influyó en las literaturas oriental y europea del Medioevo.

¿Cuál es la función del testigo frente a las políticas del estado? ¿Cuáles son las instancias que definen la producción y recepción de su palabra? ¿Cómo visibilizar las huellas del testimonio en una realidad amnésica, cada vez más condicionada por el mercado? En la encrucijada entre el territorio jurídico-político y literario, los textos aquí reunidos se proponen desvelar el ‘secreto’ de la praxis testimonial, iluminando una serie de obras narrativas que describen los contextos chilenos entre el 1973, año tristemente célebre por el comienzo de la dictadura, y el 2015. La...

Salvador Larrua-Guedes (Camaguey, Cuba, 1942) went to grade school and high school in Catholic schools in Cuba. He received degrees in journalism and mathematics, as well as a doctorate in Economics. He is a registered investigator at the Archivo General de Indias in Spain. Ex-professor at the University of Havana and the Cuban Seminar (San Carlos), he is the author of 42 history books. Monsignor Roman was a holy man, totally given to virtue, as we can observe reading the events in his life, witnessed by the thousands of people who knew and revered him. It is for this reason that this...