Title: Che Guevara, tu y todos
Photographer(s): Various photographers
Writer(s): Flavio Andreini, Paola Romano
Designer(s): Marcello Francone
Publisher(s): Skira, Milano, Italy
Year: 2017
Print run:
Language(s): Italian
Pages: 192
Size: 22 x 28 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Stampato in Italia
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Cuba, 1928-1967
ISBN: 978-8857237398
Fifty years after his death, ‘Che Guevara. Tú y todos’ (title taken from a poem written to his wife before his departure for Bolivia) intends to redeem the figure of Ernesto Guevara from the oblivion of the pop icon fuelled by posters and T-shirts, restoring it to its more human, vital, historical dimension and recounting a crucial figure of the last century, characterized by strong revolutionary instances and the struggle for civil rights throughout the world.
The volume documents the days and places, the moods and thoughts, the personal actions and historical events that featured Che. The first level of narration, with a journalistic slant, reconstructs the geo-political climate in which the story of Ernesto Che Guevara moves; the second level is dedicated to the biographical context, public speeches, thoughts on education and foreign policy, the economy and the private and public events of Ernesto Guevara. The third level, a-temporal and intimist, reveals the more personal writings - from diaries to letters to family and friends to unpublished recordings of poems - where doubts, contradictions and reflections take shape. From this narrative level emerges the man, the intensity of the questions Che posed to himself, the difficult choice between commitment to the fight against social injustice and the painful renunciation of affection and a life of certainties.
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