Schavelzon Graham Agencia literaria Barcelona

Women

ANTHOLOGY, 2015. NEW EDITION SIGLO XXI, 2019. 238 PAGES

Women who were major historical figures and women who were erased from its pages, women who dream and women punished for dreaming, women who survive and women who help us to survive. The women in these texts by Eduardo Galeano move us with their determination, rebelliousness and also their fragility. Their stories will strike a chord with the many women today who, still overlooked but increasingly visible, take part in the many different facets of the struggle for equality. In this book, Galeano portrays women characters whose belief in their cause burned bright and vividly such as Joan of Arc, Rosa Luxemburg, Rigoberta Menchú, Eva Perón and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo; and others who stood out for their beauty and talent such as Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Frida Kahlo or Alfonsina Storni. But he also includes the collective achievements of anonymous women: those who fought with the Paris Commune, who filled the African temples of Bahia with their song, those who in a brothel in Argentine Patagonia refused to entertain soldiers involved in repressing workers. Like the character with which the book begins, Sherezade from A Thousand and One Nights who tells stories to the king to distract him from killing her, Galeano writes with the mastery of a born storyteller, dispelling ignorance and celebrating the experience of the women who never gave up. The women who fought. Who fought like women.