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Shows that we can only truly understand our civilization by re-examining and confronting our past, with all its glories and catastrophes. Tying together the histories of empires, art, philosophy, science and politics, this work includes the events and people in the history of the western world from the siege of Troy to the Gettysburg address.
Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. G. Le Clézio here conjures the consciousness of Mexico, powerfully evoking the dreams that made and unmade an ancient culture. Le Clézio’s haunting book takes us into the dream that was the religion of the Aztecs, a religion whose own apocalyptic visions anticipated the coming of the Spanish conquerors....