Mi querido Mart?n, la vida de un hombre es una suma; nada es vacuo, nada es vano, nada es accesorio. Cultiva dos cosas: la memoria y la voluntad.
Hern?n Cort?s toma la pluma nuevamente hacia el final de su vida. Esta vez no se dirige al emperador ni a un numeroso y an?nimo lector, sino a su primog?nito, Mart?n Cort?s, hijo de la Malinche, para contarle su vida. Le habla de su infancia en Medell?n, de sus d?as de estudiante en Salamanca y, por supuesto, de su llegada al Nuevo Mundo y de sus amores con do?a Marina.
Hern?n Cort?s picks up his pen yet again towards the end of his life. This time not addressing the emperor nor a vast anonymous reader, but his firstborn, Mart?n Cort?s, Malinche’s son, to tell him about his life. He recounts his childhood in Medell?n, his schooldays in Salamanca, and of course his arrival at the New World and his affair with Do?a Marina. We accompany Mart?n’s discovery of his parents. We find a sweet and determined woman, the architect of modern Mexico. We find a victorious conquistador who detests war, and a powerful man who distrusts power, mere means to access the most absolute freedom. Cort?s confesses to his son that he has been many men, has a wandering soul, and loves to conquer. And his greatest conquest was not of the land, but of remembrance. Through his wit, he managed to salvage for eternity the chronicles of his adventures in the New World, and so wrote, under the protecting cloak of an ingenious pseudonym, his own True History of the Conquest of New Spain. With this novel, historian Christian Duverger ends Hern?n Cort?s’ demystification. Strictly based on archival research and sixteenth-century chronicles, the facts found in this fictional autobiography reflect a man of letters, a Renaissance man absolutely enthralled by the indigenous world, and above all, convinced that miscegenation was the key to forge a better reality. Hern?n’s Memoirs reminds us that, on occasion, only fiction can unravel the actual history.
Author: Christian Duverger
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grijalbo
Published: 12/12/2023
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9786073834575
Language: Spanish







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