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Mortalidad
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Christopher HitchensNumber Of Reads:
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El 8 de junio de 2010, mientras realizaba una gira de presentación de su libro de memorias más vendido, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens sufrió un dolor insoportable en el pecho y el tórax en su habitación de hotel de Nueva York. Como escribiría más tarde en la primera de una serie de columnas premiadas para Vanity Fair, de repente se encontró siendo deportado "del país del pozo al otro lado de la dura frontera que delimita la tierra de la enfermedad". Durante los siguientes dieciocho meses, hasta su muerte en Houston el 15 de diciembre de 2011, escribió de manera constante y brillante sobre política y cultura, asombrando a los lectores con su capacidad para un trabajo superior incluso in extremis.
A lo largo de su terrible experiencia luchando contra el cáncer de esófago, Hitchens rechazó rotunda y valientemente el consuelo de la religión, prefiriendo enfrentarse a la muerte con los dos ojos abiertos. En este fascinante relato de su aflicción, Hitchens describe conmovedoramente los tormentos de la enfermedad, analiza sus tabúes y explora cómo la enfermedad transforma la experiencia y cambia nuestra relación con el mundo que nos rodea. A su vez personal y filosófica, Hitchens abraza la panoplia completa de las emociones humanas cuando el cáncer invade su cuerpo y lo obliga a lidiar con el enigma de la muerte.
MORTALITY es la historia ejemplar de la negativa de un hombre a acobardarse ante lo desconocido, así como una mirada inquisitiva a la situación humana. Crujiente y vívido, veteado con una inteligencia penetrante, el testamento de Hitchens es una obra literaria valiente y lúcida, una afirmación de la dignidad y el valor del hombre.
Christopher Hitchens
He is a British-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, literary and religious critic, social critic and journalist. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of more than 30 books, including five collections of political, cultural, and literary essays. His polemical rhetoric made him a central topic of public discourse, resulting in him as an intellectual and controversial figure. Contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Free Inquiry, and Vanity Fair. Describing himself as a democratic socialist, Marxist and anti-totalitarian, he broke with the political left after describing it as the "lukewarm reaction" of the Western left to the debate over The Satanic Verses, followed by the left's embrace of Bill Clinton and the anti-NATO war movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.
The last century. His support for the war on Iraq further separated him. His writings included criticism of public figures such as Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa and Diana, Princess of Wales. He was the older brother of conservative journalist and author Peter Hitchens. He also called for the separation of church and state. As a critic of divinity, he regards notions of a deity or a higher power as universalistic beliefs that restrict individual freedom. He advocated freedom of expression and scientific discovery, and that it trumps religion as a moral code of conduct for human civilization. His famous statement, "What can be affirmed without evidence can be denied without evidence" became known as the Hitchens Code.
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