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by Christian Duverger (Author)
Mi querido Martín, la vida de un hombre es una suma; nada es vacuo, nada es vano, nada es accesorio. Cultiva dos cosas: la memoria y la voluntad.
Hernán Cortés toma la pluma nuevamente hacia el final de su vida. Esta vez no se dirige al emperador ni a un numeroso y anónimo lector, sino a su primogénito, Martín Cortés, hijo de la Malinche, para contarle su vida. Le habla de su infancia en Medellín, de sus días de estudiante en Salamanca y, por supuesto, de su llegada al Nuevo Mundo y de sus amores con doña Marina.
Hernán Cortés picks up his pen yet again towards the end of his life. This time not addressing the emperor nor a vast anonymous reader, but his firstborn, Martín Cortés, Malinche's son, to tell him about his life. He recounts his childhood in Medellín, his schooldays in Salamanca, and of course his arrival at the New World and his affair with Doña Marina. We accompany Martín's discovery of his parents. We find a sweet and determined woman, the architect of modern Mexico. We find a victorious conquistador who detests war, and a powerful man who distrusts power, mere means to access the most absolute freedom. Cortés confesses to his son that he has been many men, has a wandering soul, and loves to conquer. And his greatest conquest was not of the land, but of remembrance. Through his wit, he managed to salvage for eternity the chronicles of his adventures in the New World, and so wrote, under the protecting cloak of an ingenious pseudonym, his own True History of the Conquest of New Spain. With this novel, historian Christian Duverger ends Hernán Cortés' demystification. Strictly based on archival research and sixteenth-century chronicles, the facts found in this fictional autobiography reflect a man of letters, a Renaissance man absolutely enthralled by the indigenous world, and above all, convinced that miscegenation was the key to forge a better reality. Hernán's Memoirs reminds us that, on occasion, only fiction can unravel the actual history.
Author Biography
Christian Duverger nació en Burdeos, Francia. Es doctor por la Universidad de la Sorbona, en París, y profesor de la cátedra de Antropología Social y Cultural de Mesoamérica en la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Fue consejero cultural de la embajada de Francia en México. Se ha dedicado al estudio del México prehispánico y virreinal, y ha realizado trabajos arqueológicos en nuestro país. Ha colaborado con el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, la Universidad de Guadalajara y es miembro numérico de la Academia Nacional de Historia y Geografía de México. Entre sus publicaciones se encuentran La flor letal, El origen de los aztecas, La conversión de los indios de la Nueva España, Mesoamérica. Arte y antropología, Agua y fuego. Arte sacro indígena en el siglo XVI, El primer mestizaje. La clave para entender el pasado mesoamericano, y una edición del Diario de a bordo de Cristóbal Colón. Es autor de la biografía más completa de Hernán Cortés, publicada en dos volúmenes: Vida de Hernán Cortés. La espada y Vida de Hernán Cortés. La pluma. En 2016 publicó El ancla de arena, su primera novela.
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