Mirando atrás

Por Edward Bellamy

Julian West, un joven pudiente y acomodado, conforme con las normas y convenciones que corresponden a la ideología de su época, los años finales del siglo XIX, despierta un día, mediante un extraño viaje en el tiempo, en el Boston del año 2000. Ante él, se presentan un futuro y una ciudad, su ciudad natal, absultamente sorprendentes e impactantes; nada es como lo espera: la sociedad que encuentra es radicalmente opuesta a la que deja en su propio tiempo; una utopía socialista en la que todos los seres humanos gozan de derechos universales, en la que el trabajo y el esfuerzo se ven recompelsados en la medida que se merecen y en la que el estado del bienestar cobra, por entero, su real y más digno significado.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Ediciones Akal
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 13 ene 2014
• ISBN: 9788446038207

Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) was an American journalist, novelist, and political activist. Born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, he was the son of Baptist minister Rufus King Bellamy and his wife Maria. Educated at public school, he attended Union College for just one year before abandoning his studies to travel throughout Europe. Upon returning, he briefly considered a career in law before settling on journalism. Before his life was upended by tuberculosis at the age of 25, Bellamy worked at the New York Post and Springfield Union. After his diagnosis, he sought to recuperate in the Hawaiian Islands, returning to the United States in 1878. Thereafter, he pursued a career in fiction, publishing such psychological novels as Six to One (1878) and Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process (1880). His first major work was Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888), a utopian science fiction novel which became an immediate bestseller in the United States and Great Britain. Its popularity spurred the founding of Nationalist Clubs around the country, wherein readers of Bellamy’s work gathered to discuss the author’s revolutionary vision of a new American society. In 1891, Bellamy founded The New Nation, a political magazine dedicated to the emerging People’s Party. A left-wing agrarian populist, Bellamy advocated for animal rights, wilderness preservation, and equality for women. His novel Equality (1897), a sequel to Looking Backward, expands upon the theories set out in his most popular work and was praised by such political thinkers as John Dewey and Peter Kropotkin. At the height of his career, Bellamy succumbed to tuberculosis in his hometown of Chicopee Falls.

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