El Reverso de la Utopía: América Latina Y Oriente Medio / The Other Side of Utopia: Latin America and the Middle East
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El Reverso de la Utopía: América Latina Y Oriente Medio / The Other Side of Utopia: Latin America and the Middle East

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El Reverso de la Utopía: América Latina Y Oriente Medio / The Other Side of Utopia: Latin America and the Middle EastQue, entendidas en trminos extremos, la libertad y la igualdad sean opciones alrgicas la una a la otra no puede querer decir que estemos condenados a la injusticia. Sino, ms sencillamente, que hay que renunciar a las utopas, a las opciones extremas. Firme defensor de ideales como la libertad y la democracia, durante ms de cinco dcadas Mario Vargas Llosa ha reflexionado en su obra literaria y en sus textos periodsticos sobre los problemas que conlleva

«Que, entendidas en términos extremos, la libertad y la igualdad sean opciones alérgicas la una a la otra no puede querer decir que estemos condenados a la injusticia. Sino, más sencillamente, que hay que renunciar a las utopías, a las opciones extremas».

Firme defensor de ideales como la libertad y la democracia, durante más de cinco décadas Mario Vargas Llosa ha reflexionado en su obra literaria y en sus textos periodísticos sobre los problemas que conlleva la utopía política. Las piezas reunidas en este volumen colocan en el foco tres contextos que el autor conoce de primera mano.

«A pesar de que América Latina, Israel e Irak son lugares distantes, con historias culturales y políticas difícilmente equiparables, no es tan difícil encontrar un hilo invisible que los une. [...] Aquel periodo de tranquilidad ideológica que parecía haber llegado con la caída del comunismo demostró ser una ilusión. La historia seguía viva, más que nunca. El radicalismo islámico, el nacionalismo y el populismo no han dejado en estos años de ser amenazas serias para la libertad y la democracia. Estos ideales se han alejado un poco más, lamentablemente. América Latina no se convirtió en un oasis purgado de todos los vicios modernos, ni en la región donde surgiría un socialismo humanista y libertario. Al contrario, ha sido la política del resto de Occidente la que ha terminado pareciéndose a la latinoamericana: los demonios incubados en el reverso de la utopía --el fanatismo, el nacionalismo, el odio sectario, el populismo-- andan sueltos, y ahora acechan a la humanidad entera». -- Del prólogo de Carlos Granés

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"That freedom and equality as options, understood in extreme terms, are allergic to one another cannot mean that we are doomed to injustice. But more plainly, that we must renounce utopias, extreme options."

Firm defender of such ideals as freedom and democracy for over five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa has reflected in his literary and journalistic works on the problems that political utopias entail. The pieces gathered in this volume turn the spotlight to three contexts the author knows first hand.

"Even though Latin America, Israel, and Iraq are distant places, with cultural and political histories that are hardly equivalent, it is not so difficult to find an invisible thread binding them... That period of ideological tranquility that seemed to have arrived with the end of communism proved to be an illusion. History was still alive, more than ever. Islamic radicalism, nationalism, and populism have not stop being serious threats to freedom and democracy this past few years. These ideals have drifted further away, unfortunately. Latin America did not become an oasis purged of all modern vice, nor in the region where a humanist and libertarian socialism could arise. On the contrary, politics from the rest of the Western world ended up resembling the Latin-American: the demons incubated at the reverse of this utopia--fanatism, nationalism, sectarian hatred, populism--are on the loose, and now threaten humanity at large." --From the prologue, by Carlos Granés
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