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Title: Upside Down : A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 0-312-42031-5 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 05 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (20 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Upside down
Comment: While Eduardo Galeano makes some very valid points about how messed up our perception of what a properly functioning world is, He doesnt offer much more then that. He gives minimal suggestions as to how to turn our world right again. This perhaps was his point that this book was only to point out the problems and leave the reader to find the means to fix it.
I would highly recomend to any reader that they read this book cover to cover and then go reread the few parts that dont quite sink in. I found that after the second time through I was able to relate a lot more of his thoughts. Also try to keep an open political and economic outlook I garantee if you a strongly(First world) opinionated you will find yourself wanting to tear the pages up.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply excellent. Simple, damning, convincing prose.
Comment: Eduardo Galeano was prompted to leave Uruguay for being too pushy with the truth. His crime? Telling tales that pushed politicians and citizens before the mirror of Uruguay's looking glass world. These same pushy truths are revived in Galeano's 10th book, Upside Down: A Primer for The Looking-Glass World. Galeano's newest collection of essays and quiet manifestos-haunted throughout by the sketchings of deceased political illustrator Jose Guadalupe Posada-are part advertisement, part class syllabi, part prose performance piece, and part human rights reportage. Deftly translated by Mark Fried, chapters include such titles as: The Sacred Car, The Teaching of Fear, and Master Class on Impunity. Each missive, biting yet lyrical, is a carefully considered bit of philosophical criticism dispelling the mystique of the 'advertised life'. By integrating slogans, commercials and advertisements into his prose performance pieces, Galeano reinterprets market economics, and deflates the progress myth of 20th century divine capitalism. It is impossible to read Upside Down without growing from reader to critic. However, Galeano's greatest achievement is not of social critic but as prose stylist and artisan. As such, he creates a new architectural foundation for words by extending the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction then re-joining them in order to put forth his ideas. In this book of easy and affecting prose Galeano directs the reader to be as he must always be-always conscious and forever a participant. "The looking-glass school teaches us to suffer reality, not change it; to forget the past, not learn from it; to accept the future, not invent it...Yet perhaps-who can say-there can be no disgrace without grace, no sign without a countersign, and no school that does not beget its counterschool."
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Possible World
Comment: Galeano is well known for his histories of Empire, but here he presents us with an entirely different - if related - book. UPSIDE DOWN strives to illuminate the absurdities of our world: a world where the strong devour the weak, where corporations devastate the planet, and TV colonizes our souls. Written in the most penetrating and damning language, Galeano is not afraid to tell it like it is. In other words, this is not a feel-good book. For this reason, some have discredited it as a "diatribe," without fully knowing the meaning, history or import of the word. Defined as "learned discourse" mixed with "bitter resentment," UPSIDE DOWN is indeed a diatribe - but the most necessary, illuminating and effective diatriabe out there (with the possible except of Derrick Jenson's A LANGUAGE OLDER THAN WORDS and CULTURE OF MAKE BELIEVE). Similar to those books, UPSIDE DOWN is a scathing indictment of the injustices of modern life. But it is also a shrill, poetic cry for change. This book will unlock more than feelings remorse for the suffering, it will also unlock anger and infuse you with passion for change. All together, a strange little book of riddles, sardonic poems of dissent, mind-boggling statistics, perspective warps, linguistic twists, and poetic flares. Hooked from the first page, it blew me away. In the end, I must have commonplaced over a quarter of it. Another Galeano masterpiece. Should not be overlooked.
"We may be badly made, but we're not finished, and it's the adventure of changing reality and changing ourselves that makes our blip in the history of the universe worthwhile, this fleeting warmth between two glaciers that is us."
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Title: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo H. Galeano, Cedric Belfrage ISBN: 0853459916 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 0393308553 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1) by Eduardo H. Galeano, Cedric Belfrage ISBN: 0393317730 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991 by Mark Fried, Eduardo H. Galeano ISBN: 0393308987 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Century of the Wind by Eduardo H. Galeano, Cedric Belfrage ISBN: 0393318079 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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