Schavelzon Graham Agencia literaria Barcelona

Memory of Fire. 3 Century of the Wind

NON FICTION, 1986. SIGLO XXI NEW EDITION, 2015. 374 PAGES.

Latin America has not just suffered the pillaging of its gold and silver, its rubber, copper and oil. Its memory has also been stolen so that it doesn't know where it comes from and can't tell where it's going. Memory of the Fire is an attempt to restore the living history of the Americas in all its facets: its smells, flavours, colours and pain.
Volume One, Births, begins in pre-Columbian times and continues to the 17th century. Volume Two covers the 17th and 18th centuries and the final one takes us to the present day.
I would like for the reader to feel the history occurring as they read about it. I'd like to rescue it from the museum and breathe new life into its lungs. I want the past to be present.
Eduardo Galeano.

«The great literary fresco of the Americas.»
Jean-Marie Saint-lu, Magazine Littéraire

«This masterpiece has all the intensity of Goya's Whims.»
Andrew Nikiforuk, Toronto Globe & Mail

«What? How can one work so close to perfection?»
Héctor Gally, Uno más uno

«A classic of modern Hispano-American literature.»
Marteen Steenmeijer, Vrij Nederland

«A work brilliantly shaped by life and art.»
Ronald Wright, The Times

«Fascinating. It's hard to tell what's more worthy of praise: the revelations present each chapter or the prose in which they are written.»
Gianni Guadalupi, Corriere della Sera

«Like Herodotus, Galeano converts collective history into an oracular pronouncement.»
Gregory Rabassa, Guardian

«Memory of the Fire will undoubtedly be remembered as the most beautiful and terrifying history of the Americas ever written.»
José María Valverde, Casa de las Américas