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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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The eternal struggle of man against man,
By Patricia S. Bacchi (NYC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: La Gesta del Marrano (Coleccion Fabula) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Marcos Aguinis is truly a gifted writter and this, I believe, is his masterpiece. The story centers around what could be considered the first Jewish martyr in Latin America...his life falls into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition's American tentacles and all because he fails to believe in the imposed religion's symbols (he argues -rightly so- that the venerance of the "cross" is the perpetuation of a symbol of oppression and torture), he holds onto his life through logical dissertations with his inquisitors and finally ends up burned at the stake because they did not know what else to do with him (they just could not argue any longer when held to close scrutiny of illogical beliefs)...but even more poignantly is the underlying story of man's own destruction of man, which at this time had masqueraded within the strict confines of organized and established religion...the only word that came to my mind at the end was: tolerance...we are in dire need of tolerance in our world, as it was then...so it is now...a truly awesome book! a must read!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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extraordinaria novela sobre la brutalidad de la inquisición,
By marcelo (Montevideo, Uruguay) - See all my reviews
This review is from: La gesta del marrano (Coleccion Fabula) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
A través de un personaje, el lector puede vislumbrar las peripecias e injusticias que debió pasar el pueblo judío en manos de la inquisición, es decir, la iglesia. Narrada brillantemente con la sutileza y provocación de Marcos Aguinis, es una novela que invita a ser leída. Sinceramente recomendada.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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A very good overview of the Spanish Inquisition in Argentina,
By A Customer
This review is from: La Gesta del Marrano (Coleccion Fabula) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Aguinis shows in his book the epopee of a person who discovers his father is a crypto-Jew. Aguinis describes somebody who wants to be loyal to his re-discovered Jewish origins and through the study he manages to become a Jew and to contact cryto-Jews. The story is really interesting and encouraging to those who currently are crypto-Jews.
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