Historia de la literatura V

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One of each three Afghans is dead, in the exile or living in a field of refugees, and the world stays completely indifferent. From the instant one arrives to Peshawar one is wrapped by Afghanistan, its enormity, the horror and the sadness. Each Afghan that you know, be a refugee or a muyahid, is a tragedy; each one is a request: Help us, help us!, writes Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize of Literature 2007.

En enero de 1871 aparecieron algunos casos de fiebre amarilla en los barrios de San Telmo y Concepción. Las medidas preventivas y de aislamiento fallaron, y la enfermedad se diseminó rápidamente por toda la ciudad. A diferencia del cólera unos años antes, esta epidemia parecía no tener fin. Entre enero y abril. Hubo más de 13.000 víctimas, con picos de 500 muertes diarias en Semana Santa. ¿Cómo reaccionó la sociedad frente a la crisis? ¿Cómo actuaron las autoridades? ¿Qué cosas cambiaron para siempre desde entonces? Morir en las grandes pestes nos sumerge en esa Buenos Aires...