![]() These dictators ran roughshod over the people they were supposed to be governing. In the 1970s Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru were all ruled by United States-sponsored dictatorships. “ I write for those who cannot read me: the downtrodden, the ones who have been waiting on line for centuries to get into history, who cannot read a book or afford to buy one.” ![]() I found this method quite compelling for me, it does qualify as literature of a high order. However later he decided the more fragmentary style of writing was more effective in getting his messages across. Galeano had started out writing more traditional history, fiction, and analyses of Latin America with his ‘Open Veins of Latin America’ and his ‘Memory of Fire’ trilogy. These brief texts are illustrated with line drawings by Galeano himself. I would classify this book as an enlightened journalism. Here are parables, paradoxes, dreams, anecdotes, and fragments of autobiography. It is a collection of short scenes or ideas for us to contemplate. Most of the items are about people who actually lived and events that really happened. ![]() ‘The Book of Embraces’ is a collection of short passionate vignettes or word pictures. ![]() ‘The Book of Embraces’ by Eduardo Galeano (1989) – 272 pages Translated from the Spanish by Cedric Befrage ![]()
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