1. The French Revolution did not give rise to the contemporary human rights movement, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man was as puny as Oswald de Andrade said it was. Hunt pays homage to the soft power of humanity. Toussaint, for his part, found it necessary to resort to weapons.
2. Newly discovered documents provide a very detailed account of Toussaint L’Ouverture’s life before and after the Haitian revolution.
3. I have started reading Ernesto Sábato’s Abaddón el exterminador. The writing is amazing andI have the original 1974 edition (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana). Abaddon appears to be a demon of the seventh hierarchy.
When I read long and difficult novels like this one, I always find the depth of my life doubles for as long as the text lasts. I live here, but also in a parallel world.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 