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When Che Guevara, Castro's right-hand man, took a motorcycle trip across Latin America in the early fifties, he kept this diary of his adventures--and there were adventures aplenty as Guevara, a young medical student, parties hard and uproariously in the course of his travels. He also identifies with the oppressed people he encounters, and interjects his feelings about politics and human rights, his revolutionary ideals crystallizing for the first time. As Guevara and his companion, Alberto Granado, roam through the countryside on a motorcycle that keeps breaking down, he revels in a hilarious series of mishaps and encounters, but Guevara makes it clear that he had other things on his mind as well. In 2004, Guevara's diary was the basis for a film--a crowd-pleasing fusion of buddy movie and road movie--produced by Robert Redford. Twenty b&w photos.
| Size | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Che Guevara, whose worldview formed a cornerstone of what evolved into 'correct' politics was happily incorrect, a fact that can only suggest a different perspective on his romantic image. If Che learned about his fellow man as a middle-class bum, why, let's hear it for middle-class bums."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Tom Miller
"What makes this book fascinating is the way in which Guevara projects himself as a Romantic 'adventurer,' connecting the young medical student with the future icon."
Times Literary Supplement - Jason Wilson (07/28/1995)
"This is a sketchbook, not a finished work of literaure. But there is pathos in these pages--the pathos of Che himself, ever thoughtful, ever willing to sacrifice all, burning with guilt over his own privileges....[I]t's good to be reminded that for about thirty years a large number of people all over Latin America did regard Che Guevara as the precursor of an ardently desired Communist future, and that tens of thousands of those people, possibly hundreds of thousands, died during the guerilla insurgencies that were meant to bring that future into being. And so it is possible to read these diaries and to weep for Che Guevara, and it is possible to weep for the many people who were brave enough to be his followers and who may have harbored a thousand delusions about Communism but who can never be accused of having chosen a less than noble soul as their revolutionary hero."
Paul Berman (07/31/1995)
" [M]ixes lyrical observation youthful adventure and anti-imperialist political analysis...this candid journal, part self-discovery, part fieldwork, glimmers with portents of the future revolutionary."
"[A] Latin James Dean or Jack Kerouac."
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