Abstract
Based on specific events that marked the 16th century, such as Shakespeare's creation of Hamlet, the publication of Cervantes' Don Quixote, Copernicus' The Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs , and Christopher Columbus's discovery of the American continent, this book examines the issues of time, space and subject, and how they interweave to give rise to modern narrative. How creation contrasts with communication. How the verb "to tell" becomes a political verb that structures the city, provokes it and keeps the notion of madness alive in the memory of every society.
