El descubrimiento de América que todavía no fue y otros escritos (El Barco de papel)

by Eduardo Galeano

=The discovery of America was not yet and elsewhere

131 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.

The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."

He has received the International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange (2006) and the Stig Dagerman Prize (2010).

Reviews

[Trilce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un compendio histórico de calidad reservada por un contraste entre la cultura y la síntesis de su contenido. La contabilidad de memorias, crónicas de la usurpación de recuerdos que yacen muertos en una fosa común: esa es la identidad que descuenta de su totalidad con números, la fiabilidad inexpresable de la Historia.