Recollections (Souvenirs)
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Traducción:
- Souvenirs
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
- Extensión:
- ~110.000 palabras · 535 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAAlexis de Tocqueville. (n.d.). Recollections (Souvenirs). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/alexis-de-tocqueville/recollections-souvenirs
- MLAAlexis de Tocqueville. "Recollections (Souvenirs)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/alexis-de-tocqueville/recollections-souvenirs.
- ChicagoAlexis de Tocqueville. Recollections (Souvenirs). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/alexis-de-tocqueville/recollections-souvenirs.
De qué trata
Las memorias que Tocqueville escribió sobre la revolución de 1848 y sobre los meses en que él mismo fue ministro de Exteriores, sin intención alguna de publicarlas.
Contexto e historia
Eso cambia el tono por completo. El autor de «La democracia en América» escribe aquí sin la prudencia de la obra pública: retratos crudos de sus contemporáneos, juicios sobre sí mismo, y la descripción de las jornadas de junio vistas desde dentro de la Asamblea. Se publicó en 1893, cuando ya habían muerto todos los implicados, por voluntad expresa suya. Vale como documento histórico de primera mano y también como contrapunto: el mismo hombre que había analizado la democracia con distancia la ve aquí estallarle debajo, y se aprecia cuánto le costaba lo que había entendido en abstracto.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
Alexis de Tocqueville made his entrance in political life in 1839.^ At the outbreak of the Revolution of February he was in the prime of his age and in the maturity of his talent. He threw himself into the struggle, resolving to devote himself to the interests of the country and of society, and he was one of the first among those whole-hearted, single-minded men who endeavoured to keep the Republic within a wise and moderate course by steering clear of the two-fold perils of Csesarism on the one hand and revolution on the other. A dangerous and thankless enterprise, of which the * At the age of 34. Alexis Clerel de Tocqueville was born in 1805 at Verneuil. His father was the Comte de Tocqueville, who was made a peer of France and a prefect under the Restoration ; his mother, nie Mile, de Rosambo, was a grand-daughter of Malesherbes. Alexis de Tocqueville was appointed an assistant judge, and in 1831 was sent to America, in company with G. de Beaumont to study the penal system in that continent. On his return he published a treatise on this subject ; and in 1835 appeared his great work on American Democracy, which secured his election to the Academy of Moral Science in 1839 and to the French Academy in 1841. Two years earlier he had been sent to the Chamber as deputy for the arrondissement of Valognes in Normandy, in which the paternal property of Tocqueville was situated ; and this seat he retained until his withdrawal from political life.…