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Days and Nights of Love and War 
Author(s) Eduardo Galeano Original title Días y Noches de Amor y de Guerra Translator Judith Brister Country Cuba Language Spanish Publisher Casa de las Américas Publication date 1978 Published in
English1982 ISBN 9590400175 OCLC Number 6814530 Days and Nights of Love and War (Spanish: Días y Noches de Amor y de Guerra) is a 1978 book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. It was published in English translation in 1982 by Monthly Review Press.[1] Structured as a series of fragments, the book varies in tone from straight journalism to expressionism and poetic lyricism and in genre from short story to aphorism to biography.[2] It established the formal and thematic qualities of Galeano's prose,[2] and won the Casa de las Américas Prize in 1978.[3]
Contents
Origins and focus
The book grew out of the repression Uruguay suffered under dictatorial rule in the 1970s,[4] during Galeano's 11-year exile from the country.[5] It chronicles two decades of struggle and perseverance in Latin America, with the 1976 Argentine coup d'état as its focal point.[6] Galeano reveals episodes of his early life such as his surviving malaria, his loss of faith in God, the threats of military coups, dictators and censorship, as well as his experiences living amongst Indians, guerrillas, presidents and prostitutes.[7] He defends his compatriots as well as Brazilian street children, the embattled indigenous Mexicans in Chiapas, and the continent's millions of abandoned children.[5]
Impact
Days and Nights of Love and War was a transitionary book between Galeano's earlier journalistic work and his later more literary output; it was the first of a series of works (culminating in his Memory of Fire trilogy) which established his reputation as a writer.[2]
It inspired the anarchist collective CrimethInc.'s 2001 manifesto Days of War, Nights of Love, which shares its mixed form, aphoristic style and embrace of philosophy and morality as weapons within a political superstructure.[6]
References
- ^ Barsamian, David (2004). Louder Than Bombs. Boston: South End Press. p. 136. ISBN 0896087255.
- ^ a b c Classe, Olive (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 489. ISBN 9781884964367.
- ^ Fischlin, Daniel (2001). Eduardo Galeano. Montréal: Black Rose Books. p. 3. ISBN 155164178X.
- ^ Price, Greg (1990). Latin America. London: H. Hamilton. p. 16. ISBN 0241129524.
- ^ a b Fonseca, Isabel (November 12, 2000). "A Land in Exile From Itself". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/12/reviews/001112.12fonsect.html. Retrieved October 5, 2008.
- ^ a b Ryan, Ramor (2004). "Days of Crime, Nights of Horror". Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011035822/http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/11/02/026239. Retrieved February 22, 2008.
- ^ Todaro, Lenora (November 28, 2000). "Conscientious Objector: A Conversation With Eduardo Galeano". Village Voice. http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/162187. Retrieved October 5, 2008.
External links
- Days and Nights of Love and War at MonthlyReview.org
Works by Eduardo Galeano Books Days and Nights of Love and War (1978) · Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1) (1982) · Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 2) (1984) · Century of the Wind (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 3) (1986) · Soccer in Sun and Shadow (1995) · Upside Down (2000) · Voices of Time (2004)
Essays Open Veins of Latin America (1971)AK Press Literature (non-fiction) Addicted To War · The Blast · Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla · Immediatism · Days and Nights of Love and War · On the Justice of Roosting Chickens · The Politics of Anti-Semitism · SCUM Manifesto · Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism · What Is Anarchism? · You Can't WinLiterature (fiction) Audio Video Associated individuals Categories:- 1978 books
- Political literature
- Postmodern books
- Uruguayan literature
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