Libros de Thomas Ward (2 libros)

Tradicionalmente Manuel Gonzalez Prada (Peru: 1844-1918) se ha considerado como un anarquista ateo. En este libro, Thomas Ward desafia esta vision tradicional del ensayista peruano. Hay dos proposiciones fundamentales. La primera confirma que Gonzalez Prada no es ateo, sino panteista. La segunda postula, paradojicamente, que Gonzalez Prada deriva su anarquismo de un analisis panteista de la vida de Jesucristo, de acuerdo con las normas de la filologia decimononica."

Aurora Caceres' compelling novel "La rosa muerta" was set in Paris where it was published in 1914. In a work sharing formal characteristics with modernista prose, Caceres challenged the ideological parameters of the movement. While her protagonist appropriated the modernista precept of women as subjects to male veneration, she also took active control of her sexual life in a world where husbands still treated their wives as objects. The objects in this novel are not people but implements of communication and medicine, reflective of the apogee of the industrial age. The action, which takes...