El fulgor del bronce

The moral education of a society depends on the stories that stimulate its fantasy. This is why Western ethics owes so much to its novelists. Centuries before the novel appeared, ancient literature already contained texts in which the ideals that still inspire and promote moral progress shone like bronze. The old Homeric heroes, Queen Tomiris, San Alejo Mendigo, the wise men of the Talmud, a group of brave samurai and even a Viking king parade through El fulgor del bronze, in whose deeds and adventures the ideals that inspire the best Virtues of Civilization. An inquiry into that fertile frontier where philosophy merges with literature; an entertaining, sparkling essay, written in clear and terse prose.