Miradas a la misión Jesuita en la Nueva España

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Guillermo Revuelta demuestra en esta primera novela su gran pasión por la ciencia ficción. El autor entremezcla este género con la historia, para dar forma a un mundo extrañamente familiar y reconocible, que con el pasar de las páginas se torna por momentos angustioso. Nos presenta una tierra devastada y escasamente poblada que se convierte en el centro de una serie de sucesos, a priori inconexos en el tiempo y en el espacio, que se van perfilando y uniendo a la sombra del rastro original.

Aunque se han escrito ríos de tinta sobre la historia y la filosofía del alcohol y otras drogas, nadie había ofrecido hasta ahora una respuesta completa y convincente a la pregunta básica detrás del fenómeno: ¿por qué los seres humanos han recurrido desde siempre a sustancias alteradoras de la conciencia? Borrachos, un trabajo titánico de erudición interdisciplinar, trae una sorprendente respuesta a esta cuestión. A partir de la evidencia de la arqueología, la historia, la neurociencia cognitiva, la psicofarmacología, la psicología social, la literatura y la genética, el...