Post by shakhar24 on Feb 28, 2024 5:23:47 GMT
Like any other field of knowledge, history can be extremely boring and it is a challenge to relate it with ease. This is easily achieved by Juan Eslava Galán with a curious pairing that mixes three apparently unrelated genres, such as biographies, the historical novel and even the encyclopedic format. This literary mixture is deeply suggestive, since it is supported by accredited sources and does not shy away from the task of being adequately documented. When you enter a bookstore you always end up finding something you weren't looking for. The other day I bought an Encyclopedia , with the idea of having it nearby to consult at any given time. But I am reading it with pleasure linearly, from beginning to end, because each page makes you continue reading, without forgiving the footnotes and with smaller handwriting.
Nazi encyclopediaI am referring to the Nazi Encyclopedia told for skeptics recently published by Eslava Galán. It is a gift from the confinement caused by the pandemic. Almost the entire year of was dedicated to reviewing his shelves to delve deeper into C Level Executive List this matter and he arranged his notes arbitrarily to invite us to better understand the intricate phenomenon of German National Socialism. Of course, he is addressing readers who are skeptical and not those who already know everything because they have an unalterable truth in their pockets. The fact is that it manages to provide us with an unusual literary product, where some micro-biographical doses relating to certain leading figures and others much less known are brought together, but it also manages to portray an entire era, as Stefan Zweig did in The World of Yesterday .
Sometimes there are passages that could be said to have been taken from a historical novel. In short, this Encyclopedia reads as if it were a hybrid between biography and historical novel. In these times, little given to the peace that requires becoming familiar with complex topics through leisurely reading, everything is resolved with hasty Internet searches that leave aside primary sources and obtain very random results. Familiarizing ourselves with historical events is essential to understanding the present and it is fortunate to have highly popular books. These do not replace the traditional procedures of tracking down accredited documentation that helps us form an opinion, but they certainly encourage us to learn more details about it. The case at hand does not presume objectivity. It acknowledges having biases, like any other optics does not fail to have them. The sarcasm betrays the worldview of the author, who surely prides himself on not having fallen into what has been described as “the good side of history” referring to fascism.
Nazi encyclopediaI am referring to the Nazi Encyclopedia told for skeptics recently published by Eslava Galán. It is a gift from the confinement caused by the pandemic. Almost the entire year of was dedicated to reviewing his shelves to delve deeper into C Level Executive List this matter and he arranged his notes arbitrarily to invite us to better understand the intricate phenomenon of German National Socialism. Of course, he is addressing readers who are skeptical and not those who already know everything because they have an unalterable truth in their pockets. The fact is that it manages to provide us with an unusual literary product, where some micro-biographical doses relating to certain leading figures and others much less known are brought together, but it also manages to portray an entire era, as Stefan Zweig did in The World of Yesterday .
Sometimes there are passages that could be said to have been taken from a historical novel. In short, this Encyclopedia reads as if it were a hybrid between biography and historical novel. In these times, little given to the peace that requires becoming familiar with complex topics through leisurely reading, everything is resolved with hasty Internet searches that leave aside primary sources and obtain very random results. Familiarizing ourselves with historical events is essential to understanding the present and it is fortunate to have highly popular books. These do not replace the traditional procedures of tracking down accredited documentation that helps us form an opinion, but they certainly encourage us to learn more details about it. The case at hand does not presume objectivity. It acknowledges having biases, like any other optics does not fail to have them. The sarcasm betrays the worldview of the author, who surely prides himself on not having fallen into what has been described as “the good side of history” referring to fascism.