Beyond the Tilted Lances: Unraveling the Enduring Enchantment of Don Quixote

An indispensable book where Roger Bartra criticizes the “culture of blood” from a “culture of ink.” The essays in this work contain, perhaps, one of the best refutations of the Mexican political system, thought from a post-communist left.

“The idea that Mexican national identity is in crisis and that we are entering a post-Mexican condition is still relevant today; and perhaps more so than in 1999, when the first edition of La sangre y la ink was published, due to the return of the PRI to power in 2012. The arrival of a PRI president, in a post-Mexican context, is a fascinating and intriguing spectacle. I hope that this book serves as a guide that helps understand the new vicissitudes of Mexican politics.”

ROGER BARTRA

“Roger Bartra is one of the few Mexican intellectuals who has managed to dialogue with himself, becoming author and critic, writer and reader, subject and object of his permeable anthropological meditation.”

RAFAEL ROJAS, Free Letters