know that the conquest of the New World back in the sixteenth century was not exactly peaceful: That Pizarro and his men saw and razed, not sound like new, that Incas, and a perfect society establishment and organized, had a great treasure, is data that we have been coming from very young, through the school history books first, through movies, documentaries and claims which often comes after October 12.
Gold of Cajamarca, in Jakob Wassermann, is another such story, fiction documents based well documented that a few months ago in our power to enable us to finish the idea of \u200b\u200bwhat was general case based on a particular issue. Wassermann
voices in the book (reading of an afternoon: a little over a hundred pages) to Sunday, Sora Luce, a knight under the command of Pizarro, to explain how over the last Pizarro great Inca, Atahualpa. And speaking of this particular event, Wasserman, German and Jewish writer who enjoyed great popularity in the 20's and 30-the European wars, the dawn of the Nazi-talk of the conquest of America, yes, but also speaks of the tyranny of an empire committed to grow and to eliminate an entire race that was decided below, you see the historical parallels between then and the time he lived the author?
no literary flourishes Gold of Cajamarca as there are none in the rest of the work of Wassermann, the style is that of a journalist engaged in denouncing history. Wassermann does the same kind of literature when he writes and when you type something else, when historical novels environmental ancient times of the English empire overseas and when he speaks in the satirical magazine Simplicissimus -in which he shared template Thomas Mann, for example-he's growing empire experienced first hand.
The feeling is at the end of the book is the consciousness of a human nature and predatory pricing: the largest animal that eats the small of the most bloody. One closes the last page and discover that Wasserman has been a mental traveler time to time through the present: the imperialism of the past six centuries ago of the last century Tabs and, inevitably, to now, much closer geographically and globally.
Gold of Cajamarca. Jakob Wassermann. (Tr.: Miriam Dauster). Editorial Navona. Reunions Short Collection. 2010. € 8.30
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