![]() ![]() More evident than in the previous two volumes, probably also because the reader is already familiar with events and personalities of the twentieth century, the approach is undeniably political, with the endless list of massacres, abuses of power and naked greed, corruption, venality. Its role is to shed some light on the manner in which this militant writer/ poet/ journalist has chosen to present his historical research. ![]() The inclusion of it in the third volume of Eduardo Galeano’s monumental tapestry of a continent suffocated by five centuries of colonialism is not accidental. The quote is from the speech of Gabriel Garcia Marques before the Stockholm committee for the Nobel prize in literature, in 1982. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. ![]()
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