Eduardo Galeano

El colapso ecol gico -- y el discurso que insiste con la cat strofe planetaria-- se han vuelto parte de nuestro sentido com n. En esta antolog a, Eduardo Galeano propone una mirada alternativa, que es en realidad una constante en toda su obra, para acercarnos al mismo problema: nos recuerda nuestro v nculo insoslayable con la naturaleza, explora su riqueza y sus formas de resistencia, y hasta se ala con alarma nuestra tenacidad urbana y moderna de creer que podemos prescindir de ella. En estas p ginas, Galeano imagina un Juicio Final para los seres humanos, en el que un alto tribunal de bichos y plantas nos acusar de haber convertido el reino de este mundo en un desierto de piedra. No es tarde, dice tambi n, para entender de una vez que nuestro planeta es nuestra nica casa. Muy recientemente nos hemos enterado de que la naturaleza se cansa, como nosotros, sus hijos; y hemos sabido que, como nosotros, puede morir asesinada. La civilizaci n que confunde los relojes con el tiempo, el crecimiento con el desarrollo y lo grandote con la grandeza tambi n confunde la naturaleza con el paisaje, mientras el mundo, laberinto sin centro, se dedica a romper su propio cielo. Eduardo Galeano

The Biblioteca B sica Latino-Americana was originally conceived by Darcy Ribeiro during his years of exile in the 1960s-1970s. The proposal of the collection is thus to promote reflection on Latin American thought, presented in a comprehensive way, through essays and texts by important artists and thinkers. Eduardo Galeano is one of the thinkers who most beautifully told the story, the pains and the dreams of Latin America. This volume is an unprecedented gathering of interviews, chronicles, and reports originally published in Brazil between the 1970s and 2000.

Escrib Las venas para difundir ideas ajenas y experiencias propias que quiz s ayuden un poquito, en su realista medida, a despejar los interrogantes que nos persiguen desde siempre: es Am rica Latina una regi n del mundo condenada a la humillaci n y a la pobreza? Condenada por qui n? Culpa de Dios, culpa de la naturaleza? No ser la desgracia un producto de la historia, hecha por los hombres y que por los hombres puede, por lo tanto, ser deshecha? Este libro fue escrito con la intenci n de divulgar ciertos hechos que la historia oficial, historia contada por los vencedores, esconde o miente. S que pudo resultar sacr lego que este manual de divulgaci n hable de econom a pol tica en el estilo de una novela de amor o de piratas. Creo que no hay vanidad en la alegr a de comprobar, al cabo del tiempo, que Las venas no ha sido un libro mudo.

El libro de los abrazos es una s ntesis perfecta del imaginario m s inspirado de su autor. Celebraciones, sucedidos, profec as, cr nicas, sue os, memorias y desmemorias, deliciosos relatos breves en los que hasta las paredes hablan. Un libro ilustrado por partida doble: a la mirada luminosa de Galeano se suman sus grabados. " Los grandes escritores caminan en la cuerda del equilibrista y arriesgan el cuello con cada palabra. En Memoria del fuego, Galeano fue un acr bata triunfante. En El libro de los abrazos, se desprende de la cuerda y levita." Alan Ryan, The Washington Post, Estados Unidos. " Lea una historia por d a y ser usted feliz la mitad del a o. Lea una historia por d a y estar usted triste la otra mitad. Cada p gina es tan hermosa como el libro." Koos Hageraats, HP/De Tijd, Holanda.

One of the greatest, magical, and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Galeano takes us to ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where gentlemen codified the rules that we still play by today and to Latin America, where the "crazy English" spread the game only to find it creolized by the locals. All the greats--Pel , Di St fano, Cruyff, Eus bio, Pusk s, Gullit, Baggio, Beckenbauer-- have joyous cameos in this book. yet soccer, Galeano cautions, "is a pleasure that hurts." Thus there is also heartbreak and madness. Galeano tells of the suicide of Uruguayan player Abd n Porte, who shot himself in the center circle of the Nacional's stadium; of the Argentine manager who wouldn't let his team eat chicken because it would bring bad luck; and of scandal-riven Diego Maradona whose real crime, Galeano suggests, was always "the sin of being the best." Soccer is a game that bureaucrats try to dull and the powerful try to manipulate, but it retains its magic because it remains a bewitching game--"a feast for the eyes ... and a joy for the body that plays it"--exquisitely rendered in the magical stories of Soccer in Sun and Shadow.

Sab a usted... ...que el episodio m s popular del catecismo cat lico, Ad n y Eva mordiendo la manzana, en la Biblia no figura? ...que el griego Erat stenes midi la cintura del mundo, hace dos mil trescientos a os, y se equivoc en noventa kil metros? ...que Arist teles escribi sobre la mujer que es " un hombre incompleto", y Santo Tom s de Aquino, que es " un error de la naturaleza" ? ...que hasta 1990 la homosexualidad fue una enfermedad mental, seg n la Organizaci n Mundial de la Salud? ...que al entierro de Karl Marx acudieron s lo once personas, contando al enterrador? ...que hasta el a o 2008 Nelson Mandela integr la lista de terroristas peligrosos para la seguridad de los Estados Unidos? ...que en Hait , seg n una antigua tradici n, el cortejo f nebre debe conducir el ata d en zig-zag para despistar al difunto y que ya no pueda encontrar el camino de regreso? ...que cada dos semanas muere una lengua? Gestos peque os, h roes olvidados, vidas que dejaron huella: este libro es un calendario de relatos, uno para cada d a del a o, que nos recuerdan que somos hijos de las historias que elegimos contarnos (y tambi n de las que se han querido esconder o manipular). El mejor Galeano, en 366 d as.

Eduardo Galeano är en av Latinamerikas främsta författare, som avled 2015. Hans mest omtalade bok är Latinamerikas öppna ådror. Han hade en ledstjärna som följde honom, även i exilen: "Ingensanning är större än sökandet efter sanning." När dessa krönikor i Omfamningarnas bok första gången gavs ut var militärdiktaturen i Uruguay borta och författaren hade återvänt från sin europeiska exil. Så här skrev en recensent i Svenska Dagbladet när boken översattes till svenska: "Ge bort den till någon ung människa som du tycker om. Om du läser den själv först, så har ni samtalsämnen i många år." Omfamningarnas bok innehåller många träffsäkra lyriska berättelser. Dessutom har författaren själv gjort alla fantasifulla illustrationer i boken. Så här skrev en recensent i New York när boken kom ut i USA: "Eduardo Galeano är en utmanande radikal historieberättare, som Gabriel Garcia Marquez, som Isabel Allende, och som tidigare Pablo Neruda The Book of Embraces (Omfamningarnas bok) är en mosaik, eller Diego Riveras muralmålningar i ord." Eduardo Galeano tecknade som ung karikatyrer i veckotidningar, blev kulturjournalist och sedan chefredaktör. Redan när han var 31 år gavs Latinamerikas öppna ådror ut, en modig anklagelse mot europeisk och nordamerikansk kolonialism som gjorde succé världen över. Efter militärkuppen 1973 i Uruguay tvingades Eduardo Galeano fly, först till Argentina. När militärkuppen 1976 också kom till Argentina flydde han till Spanien. Det var där han började skriva krönikorna i Omfamningarnas bok, som publicerades i Spaniens största dagstidning. När han återvände till Uruguay 1985 fortsatte han skriva dessa lyriska betraktelser. Eduardo Galeano växte upp i Montevideo i Uruguay. Han blev både folkkär och en engagerad intellektuell med många böcker bakom sig. 2015 avled han 74 år gammal.

'Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often poetic pearls astonish, inspire reflection and entertain' Morning StarThe internationally acclaimed last work by the bestselling Latin American writerMaster storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including the stories of those who were disenfranchised. A philosopher poet, his nonfiction is infused with such passion and imagination that it matches the intensity and the appeal of Latin America's very best fiction. Published here for the first time in an elegant English translation by long-time collaborator Mark Fried, Hunter of Stories is a deeply considered collection of Galeano's final musings on history, memory, humour, tragedy and loss. Written in his signature style - vignettes that fluidly combine dialogue, fables, and anecdotes - every page displays the original thinking and compassion that made Galeano one of the most original and beloved voices in world literature.

'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian'Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia' When Saturday Comes'Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers' New Yorker

Selected by Guernica magazine as an "Editors' Picks: Best of 2013"Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories. Challenging readers to consider the human condition and our own choices, Galeano elevates the little-known heroes of our world and decries the destruction of the intellectual, linguistic, and emotional treasures that we have all but forgotten. Readers will discover many inspiring narratives in this collection of vignettes: the Brazilians who held a smooch-in" to protest against a dictatorship for banning kisses that undermined public morals" the astonishing day Mexico invaded the United States and the sacrilegious" women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a church in the Galician city of A Coruña in 1901. Galeano also highlights individuals such as Pedro Fernandes Sardinha, the first bishop of Brazil, who was eaten by Caeté Indians off the coast of Alagoas, as well as Abdul Kassem Ismael, the grand vizier of Persia, who kept books safe from war by creating a walking library of 117,000 tomes aboard four hundred camels, forming a mile-long caravan. Beautifully translated by Galeano's longtime collabourator, Mark Fried, Children of the Days is a majestic humanist treasure that shows us how to live and how to remember. It awakens the best in us.

From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's greatest living writers, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, comes Children of the Days, a new kind of history that shows us how to remember and how to liveThis book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really happened on that date, from all possible years and all corners of the world. From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library - all seventeen thousand books of it, on four hundred camels; to the Brazilian city of Sorocaba, which on February 8 1980 responded to the outlawing of public kissing by becoming one huge kissodrome; to July 1 2008, the day the US government decided to remove Nelson Mandela's name from its list of dangerous terrorists, Children of the Days takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but forgotten. Through this shimmering historical mosaic runs a common thread, one that joins humanity's darkest hours to its sweetest victories. Children of the Days is the story of our lives.'Passionate and humane ... so funny and so moving' - Philip Pullman'Galeano performs the sort of extraordinary feats of compassion, artistry, and imagination achieved in fiction by his fellow visionary Latin American writers, especially Borges, García Márquez, and Bolaño' - Booklist, starred reviewEduardo Galeano is one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire; Open Veins of Latin America; Soccer in Sun and Shadow; The Book of Embraces; Walking Words; Upside Down; and Voices in Time. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes.

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.

In Mirrors, Galeano smashes aside the narrative of conventional history and arranges the shards into a new pattern, to reveal the past in radically altered form. From the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century cityscapes, we glimpse fragments in the lives of those who have been overlooked by traditional histories: the artists, the servants, the gods and the visionaries, the black slaves who built the White House, and the women who were bartered for dynastic ends

The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the past, turbulent century: from the bucolic New Jersey labouratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA neutralizations" in the forests of Latin America. Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, Century of the Wind is a sweeping interpretation of the Americas no work of history has previously imagined.