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Urquizo narra los sucesos ocurridos en un célebre periodo revolucionario de México, que comienza con la traición de algunos militares a las órdenes de Victoriano Huerta, en seguida convertido en dictador, contra el presidente Francisco I. Madero y el vicepresidente José María Pino Suárez. Urquizo mismo fue durante el régimen maderista soldado federal -miembro de las guardias presidenciales- y después constitucionalista.

El temor a la pérdida obsesionó a las sociedades europeas de la primera modernidad. Para dominar su inquietud, fijaron mediante la escritura las huellas del pasado, el recuerdo de los muertos o la gloria de los vivos, y todos los textos que no debían desaparecer: el escrito tuvo entonces la misión de conjurar la obsesión de la pérdida. En un mundo donde las escrituras podían ser borradas, los manuscritos extraviados, los libros siempre amenazados por la destrucción, la tarea no era fácil. Paradójicamente, su éxito pleno tal vez no dejaba de crear otro peligro, el de una...