JORGE PÉREZ HIGUERA

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“The Other Side”   The study of history has been presented as a model based on the narration of facts focused on dates. The “Nouvelle Histoire” came up against this old model, accepting the challenge of focusing on ordinary individuals and putting a name and a face to those characters that had been thrown into oblivion. << The daily routine is the life of every man. There is no such man, regardless of his "insubstantiality", who can only live the daily routine, although he absorbed it mainly. The daily routine is the life of the man who is complete [...] >> “Bordieu” stated that the habitus, those daily activities that shape the lifestyle of people, should be classified according to the social class people belong. Thus, the working class bases its daily routine on what is needed, while the upper class does so in what is desired according to their cultural preferences and demands. In response to such a contrast, “Thornstein B. Veblen” proposed the existence of a new social class, the "leisure class," promoting it as the social class that allows others to perform the less enjoyable tasks in order to accomplish the most attractive. “The Other Side” represents the routine of several individuals to manifest the importance of the daily routine decontextualizing a fictional character and showing its adaptation to our world.