Che Guevara

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...Author: Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara Publisher: HarperPerennial Date of Publish: 1996 Genre: Fiction/ travel diaries No of Pages: 176 RRP: £7.99 Amazon Price: £5.99 >>>What its all about<<< In 1952 two friends, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado decided to journey across South America on the back of Alberto’s less than reliable Norton motorcycle, La Ponderosa. These are the diaries of the trip and the accompanying thrills, spills, high points and low points that ultimately lead them to a Peruvian Leper Colony where they volunteered for some weeks. The story is told through the eyes of an as yet unknown Guevara almost a full decade before the Cuban Revolution. It features a young idealistic man and his companion who are more concerned with football and drinking and friendship than with the future of his beloved nation though... Read review

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...." Chapter V: READING THINGS This chapter published five Umberto Eco's "light essays" on certain public figures, movie, and photograph. Again, Eco demonstrates his expertise as a semiotician to set his reading into the intertextuality inquires. He reinterprets a real figure such as Che Guevara in the sense of how he becomes a real sign in iconography; for instance, the photograph of Che Guevara. About the photograph of Che Guevara, Eco said (page 217): "This image suggested other worlds, other figurative, narrative traditions that had nothing to do with the proletarian tradition, with the idea of popular revolt, of mass struggle. Suddenly it inspired a syndrome of rejection. It came to express the following concept: Revolution is elsewhere and, even if it possible, it doesn't proceed via this 'individual' act." Chapter VI: DE CONSOLATIONE... Read review

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...you a pretty substantial 320 pages, but not without a rather tumultuous journey to your humble palms. Such is the content of this book, which according to one disgruntled publisher “will end free speech”, that THIRTY publishing houses turned the book down, before finally being picked up by Four Walls Eight Windows in 1971. Fittingly, for reasons that are not made entirely clear (but could be pretty easily guessed) Mr Hoffman wrote the introduction in jail, December 1970. This book is essentially a mouthpiece for the disgruntled Hoffman and all the “yippies” of his generation, who were determined to crush capitalism under their flip-flops like a spent dookie. Hoffman was all too aware of the need for more direct action than smoking dope and having a Ché Guevara poster on the wall. He therefore presents three... Read review

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