By Joseph Mary Mark (*).
With quotes from Manuel Gálvez and José Luis Romero, the historian Victor Garcia Costa opens his biography of Alfredo Palacios (1878-1965), giving us the key to understanding this monumental documentary that took him almost thirty years to process and is the best and most complete on the recalled lawyer, legislator, professor and socialist politician. The book
In the world of fictional beings , Galvez says, "Palacios is one of the great Argentinian this time. What is his idealism, his selflessness, nobility, his chivalry, his patriotism, his Hispanism, his anti-imperialism, his oratorical talent and his work professor and parliamentarian. "
In Figure Alfredo Palacios, Romero notes, "For so long no one did so much for the ideas for fighting, one was an actor so determined, so no one was a credible witness and no one acted like him that role ' Prosecutor of the Republic 'which he was assigned. "
quotations chosen by García Costa are only relevant in two ways. On the one hand, emphasize the values \u200b\u200bthat the author takes care to assert during the development of research, and secondly, show the need to recover from our recent past a leader pointing to a way of life and a way to rare policy.
In this sense, Alfredo Palacios. Among the carnation and the sword. A biography -now in its fourth issue, is a book of extraordinary currently in the midst of a process in which much is said of the youth return to militancy, after years of vilification of politics as a way of transformation of reality.
From ethical and patriotic feeling, Palacios defended with the same conviction and vehemence the values \u200b\u200bof equality, freedom and social solidarity, working as a lawyer, politician and university professor. His austerity earned him a life of great hardship, and died in absolute poverty. All this, in the collective consciousness is sensed its importance and significance, although it is not known in depth.
This biography is a great opportunity to discover the man behind this symbol, even taking into account that he shared with Costa García moments in recent history, which now remain of encounters and in Argentina. As the back forward, here we can know about your child being stigmatized illegitimate child, the early struggles, loves, balloon flights Jorge Newbery and saber duels and gun holster. In addition, Parker built a new right for workers, connects international socialism on native roots, made the authentic practice of university reform, became the chief of Argentine children subject to neglect and exploitation, and was a strong supporter of women's rights.
Gregorio Marañón English writer said that "the ability of enthusiasm is a sign of spiritual health, and in this work, Víctor García Costa manages to convey his enthusiasm for politics from the reconstruction of the life of Alfredo Palacios, who should not to be outside in the discussion of our present and our future.
(*) Ezeiza's Word, page 4, Thursday, March 3, 2011.
