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RODRIGUEZ BRONDO, Elsa. Literature and Philosophy in Una muerte sencilla, justa, eterna by Jorge Aguilar Mora. Acta poét [online]. 2009, vol.30, n.2, pp.167-179. ISSN 2448-735X.

Una muerte sencilla, justa, eterna by Jorge Aguilar Mora is a collection of genres ranging from essay, narrative, chronicle, and autobiography. Beyond its formal complexity, it discusses the great story of the Mexican Revolution and is committed to recover the small stories and details forgotten by official history. This bet to recover margins, maintains a dialogue with what Walter Benjamin asked the historian: "to read history against the grain". In Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History the author illuminates the reading of the book by Jorge Aguilar Mora, and he, in turn, materializes Benjaminian notions in the context of the armed struggle of the Northern Division in revolutionary Mexico.

Palavras-chave : Ethics; memory and revolution; Aguilar Mora; Walter Benjamin.