Flora Tristan, an influential 19th-century figure, emerged from a challenging childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Peruvian. Despite facing poverty, she dedicated her life to advocating for women's and workers' rights. Her observations during four visits to London inspired her to write a significant book on the era's social and political landscape. After its publication, she sought to organize labor internationally, leading to a tour across France. Tristan's legacy was later revived by her grandson, Paul Gauguin, through his memoirs in 1918.
Social critic, author of the famous London Journal, ardent socialist and feminist, Flora Tristan (1803-44) earned in her lifetime a notoriety not just for her writings on politics but for the personal revelations contained in her remarkable Peregrinations of a Pariah. It is the story of her visit to Peru in 1833-34 to claim a share of her father’s family fortune. In that respect the mission failed, but the journey inspired some marvelous of a five-month voyage around the Cape in the Mexicain, whose charming, Captain Chabrié proves a suitor of unflinching zeal; of her uncle Don Pio, patriarch and politician; of her extraordinary role as intermediary between factions involved in Peru’s revolutionary struggle. Peregrinations is a personal odyssey and travelogue combine in a brilliant portrayal of a woman’s journey towards independence.
In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the aristocrats and capitalist system she held responsible for perpetuating injustice, would become one of the fundamental texts of the early socialist movement and go on to influence Karl Marx, among others. En 1839, la escritora y activista francesa Flora Tristán viajó a Londres para observar de primera mano la capital del primer país industrial moderno del mundo. En Promenades dans Londres, cuenta los cuatro meses que pasó visitando tanto aquellos lugares de la ciudad poco frecuentadas por los turistas (y algunos dónde sólo podía entrar disfrazada de hombre)—talleres y prostíbulos, barrios marginales y fábricas, manicomios y cárceles—así como los lugares que frecuentaba la burguesía: el parlamento, las carreras hípicas de Ascot y los clubes privados. Su diatriba resultante contra las desigualdades que presenció, y los aristócratas y el sistema capitalista a quienes hizo responsable de perpetuar la injusticia, se convertiría en uno de los textos fundamentales del movimiento socialista incipiente e influiría a Karl Marx, entre otros.
Toulky po Londýně - poutavé reportáže z aristokratické Anglie. Kniha obsahuje Putování zavržené - vzpomínkové črty z cest, ve kterých autorka kritizuje polofeudální řád Jižní Ameriky.
