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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The painful and violent testimony of cruelties incurred by the Spanish conquistadors in the new world, concisely depicted by Bartolomé de Las Casas in his 'Brevísima relación de la destruyción de las Indias', is both a terrible accusation and a warning addressed at Prince Phillip of Spain. By accumulating descriptions of atrocities, slaughters and tortures, while emphasizing the deep contrast between the goodness of the natives and the evil spirit of the conquistadors, the dominic priest prophesizes apocalyptic consequences to fall upon Spain as results of the horrors perpetrated by the colonizers, driven by greed and ambition instead of the desire to evangelize and protect the 'new souls'. With his revolutionary writing Las Casas intended to share his indignation facing such unjust and unmerciful behaviours, which he attributed to the 'encomiendas' colonial regime, while advocating for a human and pacific evangelization. As he had recently done during the famous Valladolid Controversy, he tried to awaken consciences, reaffirming his humanism and universalism through his relentless mission as defender of the oppressed people. Spain's political and religious foes took advantage of this libel, integrating it into what would be known as the Spanish Conquest 'black legend', so it's author became the victim of criticism and resent by Spaniards, who considered that he had contributed to the discredit of his own fatherland. This present edition includes all the engravings -annotated- of the famous Theodore de Bry (a protestant) edition. Jean-Paul DUVIOLS is academic emeritus of the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. A specialist in the colonial period, travel literature and iconographic analysis, he has written numerous works on the European vision about America, from Christopher Columbus to Alexander von Humboldt. 188 pp. Spanisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -At first glance, Maluco, la novela de los descubridores, by the Uruguayan novelist Napoleón Bacino Ponce de León (Montevideo 1947) is about Hernando de Magalhaes' first expedition around the world, as described by the fleet's jester who, in a letter addressed to an aged Charles I of Spain, in his declining years, asking that the king intercede 'with your son, our beloved Phillip, and ask that he reinstate the pension that I lost because I sought the truth in villages and public squares.' Of course his claim implies acknowledgement of himself as one of the nineteen survivors, thus documenting the truth of his deeds and, to some extent, of the whole endeavour.The symbolic wealth of Maluco becomes apparent as the possibility of a circular ending is suggested, interwoven with profound doubts. Did this journey really take place One hypothesis suggests that it was an inner journey. Can any journey be riskier or more important than an inner one These doubts assail the king himself, now on his deathbed, and he consults his chronicler, Juan Ginés Sepulveda. The king's queries are not explicit in the novel, but are reflected in the careful answers of the chronicler, and the inclusion of this response as an Appendix reinforces its reflective, mirror-image quality. Prof. Malva E. Filer's introduction discusses the novel's relationship to theories of the New Historical Novel, as developed by Seymour Menton and other critics, and also points out Napoleón Bacino's ability to transcend 'the historical framework and the political and social conflicts involved in the narration, as well as the associations that may be established with the time context when it was written, or with interpretations that depend on literary criticism theoretical models.' In her notes and introduction to the present edition, Prof. Malva E. Filer highlights Maluco's 'long lasting value, precisely because it opens the possibility of multiple readings while dramatizing the dreams and ambitions that always drive human conduct, casting mankind into adventure and displays of daring bravery, and at the same time unleashing its passions and destructive impulse.' Maluco is one of those literary works filled with universality and timelessness, the two qualities that establish a book as a classic, a work of fiction through which every reader can recognize the parameters of his own human condition. Maluco obtained: Premio de Novela 'Casa De Las Américas' 1989-1990 in La Habana, Cuba. Premio Latinoamericano de Narrativa 1990, by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes de México and the Universidad de Colima. First runner-up to the Premio Internacional de Novela 'Rómulo Gallegos' 1991, after 'La Visita en el Tiempo', by Arturo Uslar Pietri. 'From start to finish we are in the hands of a master (.) a perceptive, sophiscated narrator who illustrates the importance of the art of storytelling. More than an account of hardships endured or individual histories, this a meditation on man's age old dream of eluding death and leaving his mark on the world as he journeys through life.' KIRKUS REVIEWS, N.Y. 276 pp. Spanisch.