Eduardo Galeano Knihy

The personal testimoney of a contemporary political writer. In this journal, the author records the lves of strugegels of the Latin American people under two decades of unimaginable violence and repression. This book alternates between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews and travelogues. schovat popis

Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, the third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind serves up the turbulent 20th century's worth of U.S.-Latin American relations, from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA "neutralizations" in the forests of Central America.

In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"—with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of the "The Right to Rave"—he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a "reality" we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed.

Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility.

[In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America.-Back cover

Discussing everything from the leveling of the Twin Towers to the death of the sole survivor of that extraordinary match between British and German soldiers in 1915, one of South America’s greatest commentators issues forth on robotic soccer in Japan, the mass-production of the game as a sign of the decline of civilization, the amazing success of Senegal and Turkey, and how Nike beat Adidas.

From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastião Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart.

Selected by Guernica magazine as an "Editors’ Picks: Best of 2013," this work unfolds like a medieval book of days, with each page offering illuminating stories inspired by the calendar. Eduardo Galeano resurrects the forgotten heroes and heroines of history, reminding us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories. He challenges readers to reflect on the human condition and our choices, elevating little-known figures while lamenting the loss of intellectual, linguistic, and emotional treasures. Among the inspiring narratives are the Brazilians who staged a “smooch-in” to protest a dictatorship's ban on kisses, the day Mexico invaded the United States, and the “sacrilegious” women who married in a church in A Coruña in 1901. Galeano also highlights remarkable individuals, such as Pedro Fernandes Sardinha, the first bishop of Brazil, who met a tragic end at the hands of Caeté Indians, and Abdul Kassem Ismael, the grand vizier of Persia, who safeguarded books in a mile-long caravan of camels. Beautifully translated by Mark Fried, this collection is a majestic humanist treasure that inspires us to live fully and remember our past.

The second volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of our present century, told through characters as resonant and compelling as Simon Bolír, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Billy the Kid. With its brilliant and imaginative blend of journalism, scholarship, and political passion, Faces and Masks is a panoramic interpretation of the Americas no work of history has previously imagined.

=Changing words. Of dreams, corn people and archangels

En 1967, un joven Eduardo Galeano viajó a Guatemala para entrevistar a los líderes de los grupos guerrilleros FAR y MR 13, que desafiaban al poder político-militar desde 1954, tras el derrocamiento del presidente Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, que evidenció el intervencionismo estadounidense en América Latina. Este libro, publicado hace más de cincuenta años, narra esa experiencia y presenta una crónica periodística cautivadora que anticipa el estilo que consagraría a Galeano, además de un análisis político internacional riguroso. Juntos, subrayan la idea central del autor: Guatemala fue, durante la Guerra Fría, un laboratorio de barbarie y violencia que se expandiría por el continente en la década de 1970. La edición actual, enriquecida con textos de especialistas que contextualizan la época y la obra de Galeano, permite al lector acompañar al autor en la vida y riesgos de los guerrilleros, regresando a un tiempo en que la revolución se contemplaba como una posible solución. El lector contemporáneo puede encontrar ecos de las turbulencias y la inestabilidad política de aquel entonces, que hoy resurgen en la región.

"Quise contar historias, las historias de la historia americana, al oído de quien tuviera ganas de escucharlas, a cualquier edad y en cualquier lugar..." Un libro de cuentos sobre el mito de la creación destinado a oídos jóvenes y curiosos que quieran saber cómo nacieron las nubes, el tiempo, los colores, la lluvia, o ¿por qué el cuervo tiene la voz ronca y el oso camina torpemente?...

Il cacciatore di storie, l'ultimo libro terminato da Eduardo Galeano, si può considerare un vero e proprio testamento artistico, umano e spirituale dello scrittore. Accanto ai temi a lui cari - le origini mitiche delle nostre culture, i soprusi subiti dai nativi americani, le discriminazioni e il razzismo, la libertà, il viaggio, la memoria, le imprese di eroi silenziosi - si trovano infatti qui, per la prima volta dopo i cenni contenuti in Giorni e notti d'amore e di guerra, pagine autobiografiche. Testi che raccontano con humor e tenerezza, nella sua inconfondibile prosa poetica, dell'infanzia, di incontri, di città, di insegnamenti ricevuti, del destino dei suoi libri. E rivelano alcune delle ragioni profonde che l'hanno portato a essere un formidabile «cacciatore di storie», istruito, nei vecchi caffè di Montevideo, da «ammirevoli bugiardi che si riunivano per incontrare il tempo perduto».

Schwindelerregend, wütend machend und wunderschön geschrieben, bietet der dritte Band von Eduardo Galeanos Erinnerung an das Feuer-Trilogie, das Jahrhundert des Windes, die turbulente Geschichte der Beziehungen zwischen den USA und Lateinamerika im 20. Jahrhundert, von dem ländlichen Labor von Thomas Alva Edison in New Jersey über die Armeen von Emiliano Zapata und Fidel Castro bis hin zu den "Neutralisierungen" der CIA in der Reagan-Ära in den Wäldern Mittelamerikas.

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Eduardo Galeano, der Autor, dessen Werke zur Geschichte Lateinamerikas seit Jahrzehnten nichts von ihrer Bedeutung eingebüßt haben, gehört zu den Gallionsfiguren des Peter Hammer Verlages. Ehemals dreibändig erscheint die Erinnerung an das Feuer nun in einem Band. Erinnerung als das Feuer war und ist ein literarischer Glücksfall; eine neue Form von Geschichtsschreibung, die Geist, Atem und Dramatik einer Epoche vermittelt. Eduardo Galeano hat den handelnden und ertragenden, den besessenen und gestaltenden Menschen in den Mittelpunkt gestellt; ein Mosaik aus tausend Quellen, ein Steinbruch unerhörter, unbekannter Geschehnisse, vereint zu einer großen Vision von der menschlichen Existenz.

Belletristik : Uruguay ; kulturelle Identität - Lateinamerika.

Es war schon immer die besondere Gabe Eduardo Galeanos, Geschichten zu erjagen. Seinen scharfen Blick auf unscheinbare Begebenheiten zu richten, mit feinem Gehör gerade solche Stimmen einzufangen, die sonst kaum jemand wahrnimmt. So versammelt Galeanos "Zeit die spricht" 333 kurze Geschichten und durchquert dabei das Leben selbst: das Wasser, die Erde, die Kindheit, die Liebe, das Wort, die Angst, die Macht, die Niedertracht, den Krieg, den Zorn und den Tod. Galeano spielt in gewohnt meisterlicher Art mit verschiedenen Stilen: Er schreibt Gedichte in Prosa, historische Anekdoten aus verschiedenen Epochen, liefert kurze Reportagen und Skizzen unerhörter Biografien. Beispiel: Arbeitskraft Mohammed Ashraf geht nicht zur Schule. Von Sonnenaufgang bis der Mond am Himmel steht, schneidet und schnippelt er, stanzt und heftet und näht Fußbälle, die vom pakistanischen Dorf Umar Kot aus in die Stadien der Welt rollen. Mohammed ist elf Jahre alt. Er macht das, seit er fünf ist. Wenn er lesen könnte, dann würde er die Aufschrift verstehen, die er auf jedes seiner Werke klebt: "Dieser Ball wurde nicht von Kindern genäht."