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A Daniel Defoe le cabe el raro honor de haber dado forma a uno de esos personajes literarios que se convierten en paradigmas de la condición humana. Si el Quijote encarna la fuerza paradójica de los ideales, si Ulises representa al hombre que se sobrepone al destino, y el capitán Nemo al rebelde enemistado con la sociedad, Robinson Crusoe es la expresión de la lucha del hombre por hacerse un lugar en el mundo [...] La sana reacción contra los excesos experimentales de los años sesenta y setenta y la irrupción de una literatura, sobre todo a partir de la publicación de Cien años de soledad, que vuelve a contar historias y a buscar la complicidad del lector, han permitido una revalorización de esos libros de aventuras con los que aprendimos a amar la lectura y que se han revelado no sólo como gratos entretenimientos sino también como sólidas obras literarias cuya influencia perdura hasta nuestros días. Ése es el caso [...] de las aventuras de Robinson Crusoe

G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today as when it was published in 1933. Then it earned the praise of such distinguished writers as Etienne Gilson, Jacques Martain, and Anton Pegis as the best book ever written on the great thirteenth-century Dominican. Today Chesterton's classic stands poised to reveal Thomas to a new generation.Chesterton's Aquinas is a man of mystery. Born into a noble Neapolitan family, Thomas chose the life of a mendicant friar. Lumbering and shy -- his classmates dubbed him "the Dumb Ox" -- he led a revolution in Christian thought. Possessed of the rarest brilliance, he found the highest truth in the humblest object. Having spent his life amid the vast intricacies of reason, he asked on his deathbed to have read aloud the Song of Songs, the most passionate book in the Bible.As Albert the Great, Thomas's teacher, predicted, the Dumb Ox has bellowed down the ages to our own day. Chesterton's book will enlighten those who would consign Thomas to the obscurity of medieval times. It will confound those who would use Thomas to bolster arid schemes of Christian rationalism. Rather, it will introduce the wondrous mystery of the man who, after a life of unparalleled genius, was seized by a vision of the Unknown and said, "I can write no more. I have seen things which make all my writings like straw."

Kritiky velikánů české literatury - V Vančury, K. Čapka, F. Halase, K Schulze aj.

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