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La vida material de Marguerite Duras

Por Mara Althaus © Página 12
July 4, 2026

“De vez en cuando escribía para el afuera, cuando el afuera me inundaba, cuando había cosas que me enloquecían, outside, en la calle”. Motivos. Marguerite Duras, tenía diversos motivos.

“Las razones por las que he escrito para periódicos ponen de manifiesto el mismo movimiento irresistible que me llevó a la resistencia francesa o argelina”, movimiento irresistible que también la indujo a denunciar lo intolerable. Si la hemos leído ampliamente, es probable que nos hayamos topado con su libro autobiográfico La vida material, y de primeras haber marcado, “Porque yo no pienso nada en general de nada, salvo en la injusticia social”, y lo escrito en el prólogo de Outside. Papeles diarios, el reciente compilado que reúne sus artículos periodísticos y he citado, nos resuene a la Duras ya leída. La Duras amante y arrebatada por Lol. V Stein, la Duras del alcohol y El dolor. Porque no es otra, es la misma. Podría una imaginar que, al trabajar un género más inmediato, esta cambiase sintonías, disminuyese intensidades, pero la realidad (¡y qué lujo!) es que no.

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Neo-fascist group Patriot Front parades Confederate flag in Washington DC on Fourth of July

Gloria Oladipo © The Guardian
July 4, 2026

Hundreds of masked men carrying banners, including the Confederate flag, marched through Washington DC on the Fourth of July, the 250th anniversary of the US’s inception.

The group appeared to be led by Thomas Rousseau, founder of the neo-fascist, white supremacist organization Patriot Front. Members of the group wore white masks and gathered in front of DC’s Union Station. They later marched towards Capitol Hill, WTOP reported.

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

-Ursula K. Le Guin

MUY GRANDE CABO VERDE

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.

-Helen Keller

It’s not just vaccines — from infancy to adolescence, Republicans are waging war on children’s health

Michael Hiltzik © Los Angeles Times
July 3, 2026

In the old days, before accepted medical protocols came under partisan assault, infants typically received a vitamin K shot to enhance blood-clotting capability and a few drops of an antibiotic to stave off eye infections before leaving the hospital, followed by a thorough round of vaccines against life-threatening diseases.

Americans assumed that “whatever a family could afford, the country had already decided this child was worth protecting,” Robert B. Shpiner, a critical care expert at UCLA medical school, wrote recently. “I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government.”

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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

-Søren Kierkegaard