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Aqui se reúnen tres relatos de London. El que le da título al volumen, y dos más: "La tunanta" y "Los tres vagabundos". Los tres comparten una misma motivación: un hombre blanco está en una tierra exótica y busca algo de gran valía: conocimiento, riqueza o amor. La obtención de lo que se busca requiere pruebas, sacrificio; pero también requiere de la utilización de todos los medios disponibles, y esa utilización requiere del envilecimiento. En el primer relato (de poderosas connotaciones lovecraftianas), el naturalista Bassett, perdido y enfermo de disentería en alguna parte de Guadalcanal (en las Islas Salomón), utiliza sus últimas energías para llegar hasta el Dios de la tribu que lo ha recogido, un dios esférico y sanguinoliento que sólo puede haber venido de las estrellas. Para llegar ahí, Bassett utiliza a Balatta, una salvaje que se ha enamorado de él. El análisis puede hacerse desde muchos ángulos distintos, pero la perspectiva histórica nos inclina peligrosamente al análisis antropológico o etnográfico. ¿Cómo veía un yanqui de comienzos de siglo XX a los "salvajes" del Pacífico Sur? ¿Cómo veía un hombre occidental a las mujeres? Un primer vistazo nos dará lo que queríamos encontrar: los salvajes son barbáricos y bestiales, reducidores de cabezas y antropófagos que ofrendan sacrificios humanos y asesinan niños por respetar preceptos arcaicos. Las mujeres, en tanto, son objeto de deseo y medio para conseguir otros fines, pero nunca se las siente a la altura del hombre, ni un fin en sí misma. A través de la mujer se satisface un deseo, a través de la mujer se llega a lo que se anhela. Y luego de encontrar esto, encontraremos más. Porque frente al salvajismo de los nativos aparece la necedad del blanco, la ambición desmedida, la inescrupulosidad. Bassett engaña a Balatta prometiéndole que se casará con ella si le muestra el camino al ídolo rojo, igual que Julian Jones engaña a Vashna para que lo lleve hasta la palacra (un peñasco literalmente de oro), y ambos saben que el precio que las mujeres pagarán por traicionar a los suyos será la vida. La civilidad del hombre blanco es presentada por London como un salvajismo más refinado, sujeto a reglas modernas, reglas que se tienen por superiores por el simple hecho de pertenecer a una cultura dominante (es decir, una cultura que tiene las mejores armas).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798550106358
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 114
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8550106356
  • Publisher Date: 19 Oct 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 163 gr

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