Eduardo Galeano
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| Original Title: | Espejos: una historia casi universal |
| ISBN: | 1568584237 (ISBN13: 9781568584232) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.”Mirrors, Galeano’s most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history’s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: “Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??”Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men’s fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
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| Title | : | Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone |
| Author | : | Eduardo Galeano |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 391 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2009 by Nation Books (first published April 3rd 2008) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Short Stories. Writing. Essays |
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If you don't already yearn for justice, you will ache for any hint of it in human history by the time you get a tenth of the way through this book.If history was taught this way to young people, engaging a moral sense of right and wrong on behalf of the wronged instead of as a litany of boring dates and misleadingly benign myths that justify the status quo, it would help ignite the passion we need to change the world for the better.History is perhaps the most flawed edifice that has been handed down and been added to by successive generations of the world. It works by the magical illusion that it is sacrosanct, unquestionable and impartial. We forget that it is merely a construction at the hands of equally flawed mortals at the rest of us who were guided by ideologies of their own. Mirrors is an arrow aimed at every one of these suppositions in order to destroy historys illusory armour.Mirrors is written in the style that
To dig Galleano's view of history it helps if you're cool with his feminist-Marxist-atheist "anti-heirachical, anti-patriarchal" agenda. The better portion of his stories he's included from deep past history have no corroborating notes, so all you have to go on, for the entire slog, is Galleano's word for it, alone. I'm sorry but that's just not good enough for someone who can't really take anyone else's word for anything, when it comes to screening the past of humanity through a sieve. So be
"Maybe we refuse to acknowledge our common origins because racism causes amnesia, or because we find it unbelievable that in those days long past the entire world was our kingdom, an immense map without borders, and our legs were the only passport required," Galeano writes. He provides us with hundreds of short stories about people of history, mostly horrific but with a few glimmers of hope. IMAGINE, a world without borders!
Eduardo Galeano is one of Uruguay's best known writers; his moment of fame in the United States came when Hugo Chávez presented Barack Obama with a copy of Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America at the Summit of the Americas; when a military junta ruled the writer's native country, it imprisoned him and banned his books. This book is a collection of some 600 mini-essays, most a few paragraphs long: a history of the humanity with a focus on the oppression of the poor by the rich, of the working
A tour de force, one for the ages. Stories that are true providing proof that you never learn from history, that truth really is stranger than fiction, that there is so much you don't know, that what happens today is connected to much that happens in the past, that power corrupts, that you can fight against the times - but that you almost never win, that imperialism is parasitic and still around, that women had to fight to talk today of leaning in, that slavery was the most profitable trade for
I just read this book in 4 days. I was completely absorbed, even though I could feel that awkwardness that comes from reading an English translation of something that must have been more lyrical and nuanced in the original Spanish. This book is so important. It will make you smarter in a revolutionary way.The syndrome that consumes our world and has been shaping our history is illuminated here through small vignettes of forgotten stories and overlooked perspectives.I am deeply grateful for this
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