Mirrors, galeanos most ambitious project since memory of fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through historys throughout his career, eduardo galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Eduardo galeano was a famous uruguayan writer, novelist and journalist. The uruguayan author eduardo galeano shows in this book, though many short texts, the history of the world seen through the unseen, unheard, and forgotten by the official history. Mirrors, galeanos most ambitious project since memory of fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through historys unseen, unheard, and forgotten. Eduardo galeano books list of books by author eduardo. Mirrors, galeano s most ambitious project since memory of fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through historys unseen, unheard, and forgotten. Galeano eschews the grand narrative tradition with its fascistic master tropes in favor of the strategic vignette, which opens for both writer and reader contemplative freedom in a vast landscape of possibility.
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