The paradox of history is a small essay by the Italian philosopher Nicola Chiaromonte edited in Spain by Acantilado in which he uses several novels by great writers -Stendhal, Tolstoi, Pasternak- to pour a jug of cold water on the pompous claims of the human being to control life and historical events. We are little.

It begins with the much commented incident of the protagonist of La Cartuja de Parma , Fabrizio del Dongo, who in the first chapters of the Nov

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