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Letters From The Earth: Uncensored Writings (2004)

Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (2004)

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Conocido también como el testamento antirreligioso de Mark Twain (1835-1910), fue publicada mas de 50 años despues de su muerte, en 1962, luego de haber leído su contenido, podría entender las razones. Me parece que leí una edición distinta a la presente en la cual escribo mi crítica. Como sea me parece que Cartas desde la Tierra, debe ser leído como una perspectiva más del enigmático Dios del cristiano, depende del lector el criterio nuevo que tenga después de su lectura, porque bien puede denegar lo establecido en las cartas o agregarlo como una posible realidad parcial o totalmente (lo cual no recomiendo).Cito lo siguiente en la carta 3: "Muchos hombres sobre la Tierra poseen la capacidad de razonar, pero no la usan en materias religiosas".(Intervalo de tres siglos, tiempo celestial, el equivalente de cien millones de años, tiempo terrenal)En estas cartas vendrá plasmada la imagen de un Dios completamente distinto al que te han platicado desde que tienes uso de razón. La historia se desenvuelve entre la Deidad, sus arcángeles Miguel, Gabriel y Satanás.Luego que de la mano de Dios cayeron mil millones de soles y globos, manda a llamar a sus arcángeles para que aprecian su maravillosa creación en uno de los miles globos que cayeron de su mano llamada Tierra. Posteriormente, les explica la naturaleza de cada uno, por ejemplo el del tigre la ferocidad, el del conejo la timidez, hasta el del hombre el cual posee las diversas Cualidades Morales, en distintos grados y tonos. Bien, después que sus ángeles presencian tal maravilla, Satanás murmura comentarios sarcásticos acerca de la creación de la Deidad, es por eso que es castigado y condenado al destierro por un día: un día celestial. Fue desterrado al Espacio, pero el fue más haya, quería ver como iba esa creación de Dios, desde ahí, tiempo después le manda cartas a San Miguel y San Gabriel, acerca de la Tierra y sus extraños seres que lo habitan. No recomendaría este libro a la mente cerrada o religiosa, porque desde luego no será una lectura grata, sino todo lo contrario. Es por eso que es mejor tomar este libro a como es catalogado, con humor."El hombre es, sin duda, el tonto más interesante que existe. También el más excéntrico".- (Carta VIII) Mark Twain.

Писма от Земята, писма до разума: http://knigolandia.info/book-review/p...Не очаквах. Знаех в общи линии, че в “Писма от Земята” Марк Твен погромява религията, но чак до такава степен изненада дори мен – сред тези кратки страници великият сатирик е по-мощен и краен от представимото – ироничен, циничен, саркастичен, откровен, направо жлъчен… и страница след страница карикатуризира и пародира християнството и персонажите от бибилията. Воглаве с това, Твен осмива и съвременната цивилизация във вида, в който я вижда към края на живота си и зловещо пророкува, че тя върви към самоунищожение – май е по-прав от всякога. Откровен до болка, той показва неморалното на морала, нелепиците, в които вярва човекът, въобразеното му величие на фона на злодеянията, които извършва ежедневно лично и вкупом. Твен надминава дори Докинс (трябва да си дочета Хичънс, за да видя дали и него) в критиките си – и това нещо е писано преди над век, просто изумителна смелост и достойнство, изумителен размах на разума в една не много различна епоха и в държава, която е убедена до маниакалност, че е хванала Господ за шлифера и тази й привилегия я освобождава от всякаква отговорност.http://knigolandia.info/book-review/p...

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Excerpt:"Now there you have a sample of man's "reasoning powers," as he calls them. He observes certain facts. For instance, that in all his life he never sees the day that he can satisfy one woman; also, that no woman ever sees the day that she can't overwork, and defeat, and put out of commission any ten masculine parts that can be put to bed to her. [Man:] puts those strikingly suggestive and luminous facts together, and from them draws this astonishing conclusion: The Creator intended the woman to be restricted to one man." - Letter VIIITake from that what you will. ;D
—Miramira Endevall

Cynics bow down before the idol of your seething ire! Mark Twain's critique of the Earth's entanglement with religion as told by an oft-banished-bad-boy-of-heaven we all know (but not so well as we thought) singes eyelashes at times. A series of letters written by Satan himself during a term of expulsion from heaven depict the sad hilarity of mankind's relationship with it's creator. Satan's outside perspective yields Twain an opportunity to express his deep criticism of god-fearing culture. It begins, "This is a strange place, an extraordianry place, and interesting. There is nothing resembling it at home. The people are all insane, the other animals are all insane, the earth is insane, Nature itself is insane." At the time of his writing this manuscript he purportedly proclaimed in a letter to a friend, "This book will never be published...in fact, it couln't be, because it would be a felony." The theme of repression is expressed in Satan's own banishment and Twain's choice of perspective being eventual-pure-evil along with his belief the manuscript would never see the light of day push him farther in his advance on common decency than we mostly jr. high Twain excursioners are used to. Moralists will object, but if, like me, you like to see the gloves come off, this antiquated step over the line will take you ten rounds at least. Also in this volume, such things as a dressing down of James Fennimore Cooper's prose style and a rousing "Unfinished Burlesque of Books on Etiquette", which explains how a gentleman should conduct himself when rescuing a maiden in a fire. This is the backwater of Twain's writing, and its swampy atmosphere can bog you down in places, but the strange creations you find in this volume show dimensions of the writer that were never allowed to become apparent in his lifetime.
—Ben

This is a collection of writings that Mark Twain didn't publish in his lifetime. The best parts were the sections where Mark Twain translated the ancient diaries of the Adam Family (as in Adam and Eve). Here is an excerpt from the conversation Adam and Eve had after they were forbidden the fruit..."Good and evil?""Yes.""What is that?""What is what?""Why, those things. What is good?""I do not know. How should I know?""Well, then, what is evil?""I suppose it is the name of something, but I do not know what.""But, Adam, you must have some idea of what it is.""Why should I have some idea? I have never seen the thing, how am I to form any conception of it? "..."How stupid we are! Let us eat of it; we shall die, and then we shall know what it is, and not have any more bother about it."Then Mark Twain reports that they were saved from partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil at that time by a new creature that flew by that Adam hadn't yet named. They followed it and he named it Pterodactyl. I thought it was pretty witty stuff.There were some other sections that weren't quite as good, but overall I'm glad I read it and wish that Mark Twain was around to write about stuff happening nowadays. Now I'll have to check out some more of his stuff that wasn't required reading in school.
—Jake

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