Status Updates From La Certosa di Parma

"Why should be consider Balzac's novels more profoundly historical than Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma, for example, the very epitome of the historical novel, with its popular uprisings, its court intrigues, its despots, and its Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic background" - Antinomies of Realism, Fredric Jameson.

"Fokelberg, the great Swedish sculptor, Tenerani from Rome, and Marchesi, from Milan, had been working for a year on ten bas-reliefs representing as many nobel acts in the life of that truly great man Crescentius." p. 442

Los pendejos de hoy tendrían que leer esto para entender que la guerra no es noble, ni tampoco un ideal al cual aspirar. 💀