If we had been in their shoes, we might have done the same - Tzvetan Todorov

testamento de Isabel afirma que no deben sufrir ningún daño en sus personas.

Cette attitude non héroïque a cependant un inconvénient : c’est qu’elle se prête mal aux récits ou en tous les cas aux récits de facture classique ; or la fonction narrative est indispensable dans toute société.

Just after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (who later won the Nobel Prize) observed, in Istanbul, the ordinary and peaceable inhabitants of the city displaying great joy at the collapse of the Twin Towers. What was the explanation? ‘It is neither Islam nor even poverty itself that directly engenders support for terrorists whose ferocity and ingenuity are unprecedented in human history; it is, rather, the crushing humiliation that has infected the third-world countries.