For Galeano, writing from within a system of oppression forces an author to give precedence to specific elements over others. Most of The Book of Embraces is a reaction to being an exiled artist, and Galeano writes about the “culture of terror” that pervades Latin America. A native of Uruguay, Galeano was exiled from the country from 1973 to 1984 after a military coup took power and imprisoned him for his leftist beliefs. The writing is accompanied by Galeano’s hand-drawn illustrations.
(Apr.The elliptical, collage-like collection of short narrative pieces that make up Eduardo Galeano’s 1989 work The Book of Embraces takes as its subject matter the ways autobiography, anecdotes, dreams, political theories, and parables can be blended into a “sweeping critique of colonial culture, pop culture, dictatorships, and market-based economies.” Translated by Cedric Belfrage, Galeano’s writing tackles a panoply of genres and is unified by the narrator’s mordantly funny voice-suffused with a dark humor that jokes in the face of crisis. Galeano's surreal drawings complement the text, blending wild imagination, pointed satire and old-fashioned charm. Bankruptcies are socialized while profits are privatized.'' Lovers, executioners, fabulous animals, slavish bureaucrats and the numberless poor inhabit his dreamlike parables and mini-stories (many a single page or shorter), which hop from Amsterdam to Hollywood. His targets range from or more vivid:`He skewers.'? aa/leave as is.g political repression in Chile, Guatemala and Marxist Cuba to whites' persecution of Native Americans to the inequities of any system in which ``voters vote but don't elect. do you mean `cultural character' `lack of individuality'aa? /works without.gs of our time. His sociopolitical commentaries expose the shallow selfishness and callousness vague. redundant and you later make clear that these are short pieces.aa He writes of his years in exile during Uruguay's military dictatorship in the 1970s, of his heart attack and of his wife's loss of a child halfway to term.
In an enchanting book of wonders, Uruguayan writer Galeano applies the collage-like technique of Memory of Fire, his fictive historical trilogy of the Americas, to his own life and the contemporary scene.
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