Eduardo Galeano
Author
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In a sequence of elegiac and deliciously droll observations, the distinguished Latin American writer, Eduardo Galeano here reflects on mortality and immortality in the world's greatest game. Tragedy spins a continuous thread through these pages.
We learn of Abdon Porte of the Uruguayan club Nacional who, after a disastrous run of bad form, was found dead in the center circle of the club stadium, revolver in hand; of Andres Escobar, the Colombian...
Author
Series
Publisher
Siglo XXI
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Español
Description
Cuentos, minicuentos, anecdotas, consejas, minicronicas, jacaras de hoy y viejos relatos redichos; libro hermoso, divertido, salpicado con mas de 400 grabados y grabaditos que dan atinada imagen a los textos; libro para leer y releer, para regalar: regalo de los ojos y de la imaginacion.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
"Striking collaboration between Galeano's tales rooted in the oral tradition and Brazilian artist José Francisco Borges' woodcuts in the cordel tradition is given a rich third dimension by Fried's imaginative translation of Palabras andantes. Readers will have to look elsewhere for introductory material, but in effect the book introduces and explains itself"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and epigraph-length fragments with illustrations. A mix of old and new autobiographical material, Hunter of Stories includes Galeano's reflections on death, written during the very last months of his life"--
"Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries...
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