De la misa al tajo

Este ensayo pretende explicar la relevancia de la Guerra Civil para la cultura española contemporánea a partir del análisis de un conunto de novelas y filmes de la década de 1990.

Más que un catálogo de relojería, el lector tiene en sus manos un trabajo que indaga sobre la relación del ser humano con el tiempo, vínculo inexorable que se logra gracias a un dispositivo que convierte el tiempo en objeto perceptible. A pesar de que se trata de un estudio específico acerca de una sociedad en particular, no se debe ignorar que los relojes hacen parte de una historia que enlaza al mundo Antiguo, pasando por la Edad Media como punto coyuntural, con el mundo Contemporáneo. Teniendo como base la colección de relojes de la Casa Museo Quinta de Bolívar y del Museo de la...

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Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.