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La otra juvenilia. Militancia y represión en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (1971-1986) explora una historia invisibilizada. A través de diversas fuentes, que van desde entrevistas a exalumnos, preceptores, docentes y autoridades, hasta interrogatorios y listas negras, Santiago Garaño y Werner Pertot reconstruyen y entretejen, tambien, su propia historia en el colegio. Lejos de las travesuras de adolescentes aristocraticos que describe Miguel Cane en Juvenilia, este libro devuelve la voz a sus protagonistas. Desmantela el relato oficial de un colegio en orden y estabilidad en una epoca signada por la violencia institucional y el terror estatal. Inspiro, ademas, las novelas Ciencias morales, de Martin Kohan, y Sinfonia para Ana, de Gaby Meik, ambas adaptadas al cine. Esta cuarta edicion, revisada y actualizada, busca tender puentes entre generaciones: la de quienes vivieron el terrorismo de Estado y el retorno de la democracia, y la de los estudiantes de hoy, que tienen sus propios lenguajes, luchas y conflictos. En palabras de los autores: "El deseo por conocer la historia reciente de nuestra escuela nos atraveso en todos los testimonios que reunimos y siguio mucho despues. Ojala algo de esa chispa regrese ahora que se vuelve a publicar, en tiempos en que se quiere negar (o peor aun, reivindicar) lo que los represores hicieron durante la ultima dictadura".

Life in a wartime house

In 1939, when Ian Burumas epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse.By 1943, with the German defeat at Stalingrad, ordinary life in Berlin would acquire an increasingly desperate cast. The last three years of the war in Berlin are truly a descent into hell, with a deranged regime in desperate free fall, an increasingly relentless pounding from Allied bombers, and the mounting dread of the approaching Soviet army. The common greeting of Berliners was now not Auf wiedersehen or Heil Hitler but Bleiben Sie ubrig -Stay alive. And by wars end Berlins population had fallen by almost half.Among the people trying to stay alive in the city was Ian Burumas own father, a prisoner conscripted into forced labour in the war economy along with 400,000 other imported workers. Buruma gives due weight to his and their experiences, which give the book a special added dimension. This is a book full of tenderness and genuine heroism, but it is by no means sentimental: again and again we see that most people do not do the hard thing most of the time. Most people go along. Its a lesson that has not lost its timeliness.