Perspectivas democráticas y otros escritos

Perspectivas democráticas y otros escritos - Walt Whitman - Capitán Swing
Publisher name: 
Capitán Swing
Year of publication: 
2013
Pages: 
384
Book size:
14x22cm
Weight: 544.3 g
Binding: 
Rustic with flaps

The essay Democratic Perspectives, as well as the rest of the fragmentary letters and notes that make up this edition, are probably the most important prose works of Walt Whitman, written during the Civil War (where he served as volunteer and nurse of the Union) and a few years later, during the national reconstruction. Without ever abandoning his famous lyrical tone, the author offers us an unforgettable song to political freedom, in one of the best written defenses on democracy. In these pages, the great poet is shown as a demanding political commentator, more combative than ever. We do not find the happy vagabond who sings the epic of American democracy, but with an anguished and disillusioned reflection on a distorted democracy, degraded and incomplete, that does not reach to become the expected scenario for the appearance of the man who deserves it. Shocked by the rudeness of ins...read more

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Book: Perspectivas democráticas y otros escritos

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