A review by margaret_j_c
Days and Nights of Love and War, by Eduardo Galeano
"Perhaps writing is no more than an attempt to save, in times of infamy, the voices that will testify to the fact that we were here and this is how we were."
The fragmentary nature of this seminal work bears witness to the fragmented lives of those who have lived under a dictatorship, those like Galeano who constantly began and re-began their lives in and out of danger and exile. At the same time, Galeano uses vignettes to bear witness to a vast number of individual narratives, giving a voice to silenced stories and denying, through their sheer number, the existence of the "master narrative" told by dictatorship and colonialism. A powerful work, and a beautiful one.
The fragmentary nature of this seminal work bears witness to the fragmented lives of those who have lived under a dictatorship, those like Galeano who constantly began and re-began their lives in and out of danger and exile. At the same time, Galeano uses vignettes to bear witness to a vast number of individual narratives, giving a voice to silenced stories and denying, through their sheer number, the existence of the "master narrative" told by dictatorship and colonialism. A powerful work, and a beautiful one.