Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Content1 -- Series Editors' General Introduction -- Criteria for This Edition -- Biographical Note on Manuel González Prada -- Chronology of Manuel González Prada -- Introduction by David Sobrevilla -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Editor and Translator -- Contents -- I Free Pages -- Lecture at the Atheneum in Lima -- Speech at the Olympus Theater -- Grau -- Speech at the Politeama Theater -- Peru and Chile -- Vijil -- Catholic Education -- Propaganda and Attack -- Renan -- Notes on Language -- Death and Life -- II Times of Struggle -- The Parties and the National Union -- The Intellectual and the Worker -- Our Judges -- Our Indians -- III New Free Pages -- Poetry -- A Moment of Philosophy -- IV Diogenes' Cask -- Our Mother -- V Anarchy -- Anarchy -- The Universal Holiday -- The Responsibility of the Anarchist -- The State -- Authority -- The Beginning -- The Sword -- Socialism and Anarchy -- Strikes -- The Soldiers Rebellion -- The First of May (1907) -- Antipoliticians -- Revolution -- The First of May (1908a) -- The Police -- The Two Nations -- The First of May (1908b) -- The Individual -- The Paris Commune -- Force -- VI Under Opprobrium -- Caporalismo -- The Good Revolution -- The Rotten Core -- Tyrannicide -- Footnotes -- ch01fn -- ch02fn -- ch03fn -- ch04fn -- ch05fn -- ch06fn -- ch07fn -- ch09fn -- ch10fn -- ch11fn -- ch12fn -- ch15fn -- ch16fn -- ch17fn -- ch18fn -- ch21fn -- ch32fn -- ch33fn -- ch34fn -- ch36fn -- ch39fn.

Manuel Gonzalez Prada was a powerful Peruvian writer and political reformer whose essays and speeches influenced generations of young radicals. He founded the Party of National Unity in 1891, was linked to the anarchist movement, and served as Director of the National Library from 1912-1914.His writings have had enormous impact on the literary and political life of Peru: taking up the defense of exploited indigenous people, broadsiding the landowning oligarchy, and denouncing the social and political errors of the country. In fact, the radical politics Prada advocated then are stillalive and relevant today: Modernization (secularization) of Peru, transformation of a nation through its people, promotion of internationalism (universalism) versus overt patriotism (communitarianism), and condemnation of war.This translation is based on the Obras of Gonzalez Prada, edited by Luis Alberto Sanchez. It includes essays, speeches and polemical writings drawn from two of Prada's only books of prose published during his lifetime, Paginas Libres and Horas de Lucha, in addition to unpublished manuscriptsand works previously printed in newspapers and magazines. His writings are gathered thematically under the subheadings Peruvian Problems, Anarchy, and Philosophical, Literary, and Linguistic Problems.

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