Historia de la Isla de Cuba I

Juan Cano Ballesta estudia en lúcidos y rigurosos ensayos -con gran despliegue teórico y documental, de figuras y textos- el discurso político de años muy turbulentos de nuestra historia. La utopía es un eficaz recurso retórico que “recorre todo el espectro intelectual de la modernidad” (Calinescu) para suscitar simpatías por una causa. Si las ideologías de izquierda cantaban la “aurora roja” como el soñado paraíso que iba a traer la revolución, la Falange invocaba insistentemente el feliz “amanecer” y el “imperio” en el ensayo, la poesía, el periodismo y en los...

Carlos Blanco analiza la personalidad de tres dictadores que coincidieron en un momento culminante de la historia europea y contribuyeron esencialmente a su formación. El autor presenta una imagen totalmente original de los tres dictadores: Franco, Hitler y Mussolini eran hombres con una sed insaciable de poder, una necesidad constante de lograr la estima de los demás, una desconsideración absoluta hacia el dolor ajeno, total falta de escrúpulos para traicionar a quien fuera y un egocentrismo que rayaba la locura.

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