El largo siglo XX

Roger Caillois examina en este libro las múltiples formas de manifestación y de creación de la imaginación mítica; en estas páginas están al mismo tiempo las habilidades del poeta y las destrezas del investigador riguroso.

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Asserts that during the 19th-20th centuries, French antisemitism had a great influence in Spain, backed by the old Spanish medieval stereotypes about the Jews. The new French antisemitism described the Jew as a secret conspirator who wished to dominate the world and destroy European culture. In Spain, as in the rest of Europe, this image was used (mostly by militant Catholic circles) to rationalize the end of absolutism and the rise of liberalism. Later, the same stereotype was used to explain the Russian Revolution. After World War II, antisemitism in Spain declined, but in the 1990s the...

El 21 de febrero de 1803, el coronel Ed­ward (Ned) Marcus Despard fue ahorca­do y decapitado en Londres ante una mul­titud de 20.000 personas por organizar una conspiración revolucionaria para de­rrocar al rey Jorge III. Catherine (Kate), su esposa de origen caribeño y raza negra, le ayudó a escribir el discurso que pronun­ció desde el patíbulo, en el que se procla­maba amigo de los pobres y los oprimidos. En él expresó también su confianza en que «los principios de la libertad, la humani­dad y la justicia triunfarán finalmente so­bre la falsedad, la tiranía y el...