by Eduardo Lourenço · Gradiva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726626688
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History arrives late to give meaning to the life of a people. It can only recapitulate it. Before the full awareness of a particular destiny—the one that memory, as a chronicle or history properly speaking, revisits—a people is already a future and lives from the future it imagines in order to exist. The image of itself precedes it like the tablets of the law to the Hebrews in the desert. They are projects, dreams, injunctions, a memory of itself in that founding era which, once it has emerged, is already destiny and conditions its entire destiny. In short, myths.
