Eduardo Galeano Libri

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».

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

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.

Este libro aborda temas de ciencia política y relaciones internacionales, explorando conceptos generales y teorías relevantes en el campo. Ofrece un análisis profundo de las dinámicas globales y las interacciones entre naciones, ideal para estudiantes y profesionales interesados en entender el panorama internacional.