· A memory of fire: eulogy for Eduardo Galeano. The literary world lost two icons Monday, April 15, in Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano and German author Günter Grass, both from lung complications. Both writers were prolific—Grass won the Nobel Prize —and were hard proponents of left wing politics. I have not read Grass’ work, so I cannot defend his writing, but I’d be remiss not to . A unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement, original research, and literary form/5. Eduardo Galeano (–) was one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. He was the author of the trilogy Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Days and Nights of Love and War, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Voices of Time, Upside Down, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, and Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History/5(16).
Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. He is the author of the trilogy Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Days and Nights of Love and War, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Voices of Time, Upside Down, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, and Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History. A unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement, original research, and literary form. Memory of Fire is an extraordinary sequence of narratives that Galeano has collected from indigenous myths, histories and journalism, covering the bloody five hundred year history from Columbus to the present. Acts of oppression and of continued resistance are recounted in vivid prose.
Galeano's best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, ) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, –6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to. Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy (a history of the Western hemisphere with a corrective emphasis on its southern half, comprising Genesis, Faces and Masks and Century of the Wind) is very good, at moments sublime, and extremely important, showing us a new way to write and understand history: in vivid fragments, vignettes, poetic images. The act of authorial selection is foregrounded by the form, so there’s no traditional historical legerdemain suggesting that this is the history. Memory of Fire is an extraordinary sequence of narratives that Galeano has collected from indigenous myths, histories and journalism, covering the bloody five hundred year history from Columbus to the present. Acts of oppression and of continued resistance are recounted in vivid prose.
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