Redentores: Ideas Y Poder En Latinoamerica / Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latinamerica

Por este libro desfilan profetas de la redenci鏮 como el heroico Mart? el idealista Rod? el educador Vasconcelos o el indigenista Mari嫢egui. Los sigue, como figura central, el poeta y ensayista Octavio Paz, cuya vida abarca el siglo entero y cuyas ra獳es familiares recogen toda la tradici鏮 revolucionaria moderna. A la manera de Plutarco y sus Vidas paralelas, el autor dibuja enseguida los perfiles de Eva Per鏮 y el Che Guevara, pone en contrapunto las actitudes pol癃icas y morales de los novelistas Gabriel Garc燰 M嫫quez y Mario Vargas Llosa, y explica la conexi鏮 hist鏎ica entre el te鏊ogo Samuel Ruiz y el guerrillero Subcomandante Marcos. Finalmente, conecta a Hugo Ch嫛ez con la tradici鏮 caudillista y el culto carlyleano al h廨oe.

A trav廥 de estas doce biograf燰s sutilmente entrelazadas, Enrique Krauze esclarece el dilema central de Am廨ica Latina, la tensi鏮 entre el ideal de la democracia y la tentaci鏮, siempre presente, del mesianismo pol癃ico.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The protagonists of this book are ideas, the ideas embodied in people with lives touched by power, history, and revolution; but also by love, friendship, and family. Real lives, not walking ideas.

In this book we read about liberation leaders and prophets, such as the heroic Mart? the idealist Rod? Vasconcelos from Educator, and the pro-Indian advocate Mariategui. Poet and essayist Octavio Paz is used as a central figure since his life spans the entire century and whose family roots capture the whole modern revolutionary tradition. Just like Plutarch and his Parallel Lives, the author immediately draws the profiles of Eva Peron and Che Guevara, compares Gabriel Garc燰 M嫫quez and Mario Vargas Llosa's political and moral attitudes, and explains the historical connection between theologian Samuel Ruiz and revolutionary Subcomandante Marcos. Finally, it connects Hugo Ch嫛ez with the caudillo tradition.

Through these twelve subtly interwoven biographies, Enrique Krauze sheds a light on the central dilemma in Latin America, the always-present tension between the ideal of democracy and temptation.