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El perdedor radical
Ensayo sobre los hombres del terror
2006
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En este breve y contundente ensayo, Enzensberger establece los puntos comunes que caracterizan al loco violento, capaz de tomar un colegio y disparar indiscriminadamente a su alrededor, y a los terroristas de signo islámico. Menciona los atentados de Madrid de marzo de 2004 y nos recuerda la consigna posterior de Al-Qaeda: «Vosotros amáis la vida; nosotros amamos la muerte. Por eso venceremos.» Lo que nos remite a aquel «¡Viva la muerte!» del octubre español de 1936 en Salamanca. No olvida el autor la barbarie nazi ni sus chivos expiatorios; tampoco pasa por alto las ideologías destructivas y autodestructivas (los dos rasgos que mejor definen a estos pededores radicales) de signo izquierdista, para terminar subrayando que esta nueva forma del terror se nutre de modelos y tecnologías occidentales, siendo el desarrollo de estos movimientos sectarios un proceso en el que la globalización desempeñaría un papel no despreciable: «La presión del capital que opera a escala mundial los ha obligado a abandonar sus fantasías de conquistar el mundo.»
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Author · 24 books

See also: Cyrillic: Ханс Магнус Енценсбергер Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a German author, poet, translator and editor. He had also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books. He was one of the leading authors in the Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour Le Mérite, among many others. He wrote in a sarcastic, ironic tone in many of his poems. For example, the poem "Middle Class Blues" consists of various typicalities of middle class life, with the phrase "we can't complain" repeated several times, and concludes with "what are we waiting for?". Many of his poems also feature themes of civil unrest over economic- and class-based issues. Though primarily a poet and essayist, he also ventured into theatre, film, opera, radio drama, reportage and translation. He wrote novels and several books for children (including The Number Devil, an exploration of mathematics) and was co-author of a book for German as a foreign language, (Die Suche). He often wrote his poems and letters in lower case. Enzensberger also invented and collaborated in the construction of a machine which automatically composes poems (Landsberger Poesieautomat). This was used during the 2006 Football World Cup to commentate on games. Tumult, written in 2014, is an autobiographical reflection of his 1960s as a left-wing sympathizer in the Soviet Union and Cuba. Enzensberger translated Adam Zagajewski, Lars Gustafsson, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden and César Vallejo. His own work has been translated into more than 40 languages.

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