Ars Moriendi [ o el arte del buen morir ]
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Rev. aportes de la comunicación
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La literatura es una suerte de memoria sostenida a lo largo de la historia, aunque la mayor de las veces condenada al olvido en el inconsciente de los ciudadanos. Entre metáforas y alegorías las obras canónicas cobran presencia ante eventos que cuestionan la razón misma de la condición humana. Pensar que en "aquellos otros tiempos" los seres humanos estaban en peores condiciones que nosotros actualmente es una interpretación equivocada. Mediante una lectura perspicaz de grandes clásicos como "El Decamerón" y "Las mil y una noches", se concluye desde la propia subjetividad que los individuos y la sociedad lejos de ennoblecer, empobrecieron sus valores y alterados por su percepción de la realidad, ellos exhiben una particular forma de comportamiento social.
Literature is a kind of memory sustained throughout history, although most of the times condemned to oblivion in the unconscious of citizens. Amid metaphors and allegories, canonical works gain presence in the face of events that question the very reason for the human condition. To think that in "those other times" human beings were in worse conditions than we are today, is a wrong interpretation. Through an insightful reading of great classics such as "The Decameron" and "The thousand nights and one nigth", it is concluded from our own subjectivity that individuals and society are far from ennobling; impoverished their values and altered by their perception of reality, they exhibit a particular way of social behavior.
Literature is a kind of memory sustained throughout history, although most of the times condemned to oblivion in the unconscious of citizens. Amid metaphors and allegories, canonical works gain presence in the face of events that question the very reason for the human condition. To think that in "those other times" human beings were in worse conditions than we are today, is a wrong interpretation. Through an insightful reading of great classics such as "The Decameron" and "The thousand nights and one nigth", it is concluded from our own subjectivity that individuals and society are far from ennobling; impoverished their values and altered by their perception of reality, they exhibit a particular way of social behavior.
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No. 28