MANUELA Y EL SOCIALISMO UTOPICO: Eugenio Díaz ante la reforma liberal en la República de la Nueva Granada
Bogotá: Filomena Edita (Colección Cálamo), 2021. First Edition. Paperback. 227p., bibl., wrps. new. Item #81977
"Manuela y el Socialismo Utópico" is the product of the numerous courses and notes that Professor Iván Padilla has collected due to the need to fill some gaps, as he calls them, about the study of Manuela, a novel written by Eugenio Díaz and that came to light in the middle of the XIX century. Padilla proposes five chapters in which he makes a study on three main problems. The first of them, and to which he dedicates his first two sections, is the reception of the novel in his time. Thus, Padilla reviews why Díaz's work is part of the costumbrista literary movement and analyzes the implications. The second chapter deals with the relationship between the work and the historical, social and cultural situation of the moment (which, broadly speaking, seemed to only include in the novel the conflicts generated by the Constitution of 1853 but which in reality encompasses the entire failed republican process). And the third section analyzes Díaz's participation in the debates of the moment, not only through an evident social criticism, but also with a proposal such as "utopian socialism" which, according to Padilla, would be implicit in his work. . The book closes with a study on the way in which fundamental rights and the situation of women are treated in the novel; implicitly leaving an invitation to continue the study of Manuela and reflect on the place she occupies in the history of Colombian literature. but also with a proposal such as "utopian socialism" which, according to Padilla, would be implicit in his work. The book closes with a study on the way in which fundamental rights and the situation of women are treated in the novel; implicitly leaving an invitation to continue the study of Manuela and reflect on the place she occupies in the history of Colombian literature. but also with a proposal such as "utopian socialism" which, according to Padilla, would be implicit in his work. The book closes with a study on the way in which fundamental rights and the situation of women are treated in the novel; implicitly leaving an invitation to continue the study of Manuela and reflect on the place she occupies in the history of Colombian literature.
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