Belice: una historia olvidada

La España del siglo XVIII no llama la atención por su grandeza o su capacidad creadora, sino por su prosperidad. El país no se había metido en grandes aventuras, y solo cabía esperar un tranquilo XIX. Sin embargo, entre 1808 y 1812 una serie de acontecimientos cambian el curso de la historia: un destronamiento coloca en el trono a Fernando VII; España es invadida por Napoleón y José Bonaparte se proclama rey de España; el pueblo se alza, iniciando la Guerra de lndependencia, y logra finalmente expulsar a los franceses; en Cádiz unas Cortes proclaman la primera Constitución...

En el año en el que se conmemoran 75 años del exilio español en México, la aparición de una obra como esta plantea, una vez más la diversidad de perspectivas desde las que puede analizarse este hecho histórico. "El exilio es el relato de un fracaso que quiere ser fecundo", fecundo en el análisis de la propia e intempestiva nueva realidad, del papel del exiliado, desde esa su condición, frente a aquel que lo ha recibido.

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