Dos caballeros vestidos con armaduras esperan en la oscuridad del p\u00e1ramo la llegada de un drag\u00f3n al que deben matar. Ellos no lo han visto nunca, pero lo describen como una criatura enorme y monstruosa de un solo ojo, que escupe fuego y echa humo. Cuando por fin se produce el tan temido enfrentamiento, la historia da un giro insospechado.
El cuento, titulado originalmente The Dragon, del c\u00e9lebre escritor norteamericano Ray Bradbury, fue publicado por la revista Esquire en 1955, y luego reeditado en la antolog\u00eda Medicina para la melancol\u00eda, de 1959. Esta edici\u00f3n recupera uno de los relatos m\u00e1s aclamados del autor de Cr\u00f3nicas marcianas y Fahrenheit 451, en los que ya se vislumbra uno de los temas m\u00e1s importantes de su obra: la especulaci\u00f3n sobre el tiempo y la amenaza del futuro.
El drag\u00f3n adquiere el valor simb\u00f3lico de la distancia entre el pensamiento de dos etapas de la historia de la humanidad: la Edad Media y el siglo XX. Sin embargo, no hay un \u00fanico drag\u00f3n, la maestr\u00eda de Svetlin nos deleita con un despliegue de representaciones de esta criatura mitol\u00f3gica, en la que se materializa tanto el terror como la fantas\u00eda del relato, cuyo desenlace deja una puerta abierta a la imaginaci\u00f3n del lector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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