Imaginación y poder

Hace cien años se desarrolló en Londres un pequeño gran drama. A no mucha distancia de donde se erigió el Globe Theater, donde Shakespeare estrenó gran parte de sus obras, y también enfrentando el río Támesis, pero en la orilla contraria, encarando asimismo a un público expectante, otro Julio César, Julio César Arana, barón peruano del caucho, se hacía presente ante la comisión mixta de investigación del Parlamento británico, que los sindicaba a él y a su vasta empresa —la Peruvian Amazon Company, más conocida como la Casa Arana— del holocausto de más de cuarenta mil...

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A través de la fracasada misión de los sacerdotes occidentales que en el siglo XVII intentaron evangelizar el Japón, Endo propone una sutil reflexión sobre los valores fundamentales de la fe cristiana. Cuando la obra se publicó en Japón fue motivo de apasionadas controversias, obtuvo el prestigioso premio Tanizaki, fue considerada la mejor novela del año y en poco tiempo había vendido millones de ejemplares. Hoy es considerada como la novela más importante de Endo y una pieza fundamental para explicar ciertos caminos emprendidos por la narrativa japonesa de nuestros días. Esta nueva ...