Mirrors
The History of the World, Refracted
(Sprache: Englisch)
Eduardo Galeano is determined to forget that history is usually written by the victors. He favours the voiceless and the vulnerable. "Mirrors" is a narrative history of the world that condenses into its scintillating fragments radically altered visions of...
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Eduardo Galeano is determined to forget that history is usually written by the victors. He favours the voiceless and the vulnerable. "Mirrors" is a narrative history of the world that condenses into its scintillating fragments radically altered visions of the landmark events on this earth, and of the landmark individuals who pass history from hand to hand in the official guidebooks.
Yes, it is a book for the young provocateur, the young utopian, or the utopian remnant left in all of us, but it is so outrageously bold, skilfully dramatic and ingeniously clever, refracting as it does any number of memorable characters and events through Galeano's red-rose-tinted lens, that even the exhausted ex-communist or cardboard-conservative reader might be amused, challenged or overturned by it. It is another kind of history writing altogether, entirely reliant on the fireside storyteller's skills, but grounded in an unimpeachably wide and broad reading and understanding of events. "What Memory of Fire", Galeano's legendary interpretation of all of South American history, did for that one continent "Mirrors" does for our entire sorry, sparkling planet.
Yes, it is a book for the young provocateur, the young utopian, or the utopian remnant left in all of us, but it is so outrageously bold, skilfully dramatic and ingeniously clever, refracting as it does any number of memorable characters and events through Galeano's red-rose-tinted lens, that even the exhausted ex-communist or cardboard-conservative reader might be amused, challenged or overturned by it. It is another kind of history writing altogether, entirely reliant on the fireside storyteller's skills, but grounded in an unimpeachably wide and broad reading and understanding of events. "What Memory of Fire", Galeano's legendary interpretation of all of South American history, did for that one continent "Mirrors" does for our entire sorry, sparkling planet.
Autoren-Porträt von Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano, geboren 1940 in Montevideo / Uruguay, wurde mit 20 Jahren stellvertretender Chefredakteur der bekannten Zeitschrift für Kultur und Politik MARCHA in Montevideo. Zwischen 1964 und 1966 war er Direktor der EPOCHA, der Zeitschrift der 'unabhängigen Linken' von Uruguay.1973 übernahm er in Buenos Aires die Chefredaktion der Zeitschrift CRISIS und leitete sie bis zur Schließung des Verlags 1976. Ab 1976 lebte Guleano im spanischen Exil. Im Frühjahr 1985, nach der Beendigung der Militärdikatur in Uruguay, kehrte er nach Montevideo zurück. Für seine literarische Arbeit erhielt er u.a. den Preis der "Casa de las Americas" und den "American Book Award". Eduardo Hughes Galeano verstarb 2015.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Eduardo Galeano
- 2009, 304 Seiten, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Portobello
- ISBN-10: 184627219X
- ISBN-13: 9781846272196
Sprache:
Englisch
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