According to one article Jstor makes available:
Eduardo Galeano ... died.... in his native Uruguay. The grandson of a Welsh immigrant, Galeano was the author of many articles and books, the best known in the U.S. being translations of Memoria del fuego (Memories of Fire trilogy) and Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina (The Open Veins of Latin America).
Memories of Fire won the American Book Award in 1989. .... Hugo Chavez gave Barack Obama a gift copy of the stridently anti-U.S.Open Veins in 2009 at the Summit of the Americas.
.....As a critic of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism, he was particularly attuned to the disjunction between the rhetoric of democracy and the reality of brute politics in regions he knew intimately.
“I am a man from the South, and Latin American history teaches one to mistrust words,” he wrote ....“Official language rants deliriously, and its delirium is the system’s normality.”
In response, Galeano perfected a “fragmentary, aphoristic” style. His episodic “True Stories: Notes on Extraordinary Things,” ... translated by Mark Fried.... gives a good introduction to this collage-like approach to telling the stories of everyday people.....
An example of Galeano's style is this quote from "Contraceptive Methods of Proven Effectiveness":
In Rome...upper class women warded off pregnancy by carrying a small ivory tube containing a slice of the uterus of a lioness or the liver of a cat.
Memories of Fire won the American Book Award in 1989. .... Hugo Chavez gave Barack Obama a gift copy of the stridently anti-U.S.Open Veins in 2009 at the Summit of the Americas.
.....As a critic of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism, he was particularly attuned to the disjunction between the rhetoric of democracy and the reality of brute politics in regions he knew intimately.
“I am a man from the South, and Latin American history teaches one to mistrust words,” he wrote ....“Official language rants deliriously, and its delirium is the system’s normality.”
In response, Galeano perfected a “fragmentary, aphoristic” style. His episodic “True Stories: Notes on Extraordinary Things,” ... translated by Mark Fried.... gives a good introduction to this collage-like approach to telling the stories of everyday people.....
An example of Galeano's style is this quote from "Contraceptive Methods of Proven Effectiveness":
In Rome...upper class women warded off pregnancy by carrying a small ivory tube containing a slice of the uterus of a lioness or the liver of a cat.
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