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I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor - Letters 1947-1967

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An extraordinary new selection of the letters of Che Guevara, from throughout his life, many released for the very first time

Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries are those of a master narrator, characterized by a brutal honesty, a remarkable lack of ego, a razor-sharp wit, an iron will and a great capacity to express his love and affection for his closest friends and family.

This selection of Che Guevara's correspondence, beginning with letters penned in his early travels around Latin America as a medical student, shows how he polished his unique style over the years. This selection maps the emergence of a dedicated revolutionary and original political thinker from the wide-eyed young Argentine who set out to discover Latin America. Covering the entirety of Che's life, from his famous motorcycle journey around South America to the Cuban Revolutionary War, from the setting-up of the pioneering communist state of Cuba to his revolutionary travels to the Congo and Bolivia. But it also reveals a more intimate, personal side to Che, including his letters to his mother, wife and children.

In one of his last letters to his young children, Che advised them to 'always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.'

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Ernesto Che Guevara

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An extraordinary new selection of the letters of Che Guevara, from throughout his life, many released for the very first time

Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries are those of a master narrator, characterized by a brutal honesty, a remarkable lack of ego, a razor-sharp wit, an iron will and a great capacity to express his love and affection for his closest friends and family.

This selection of Che Guevara's correspondence, beginning with letters penned in his early travels around Latin America as a medical student, shows how he polished his unique style over the years. This selection maps the emergence of a dedicated revolutionary and original political thinker from the wide-eyed young Argentine who set out to discover Latin America. Covering the entirety of Che's life, from his famous motorcycle journey around South America to the Cuban Revolutionary War, from the setting-up of the pioneering communist state of Cuba to his revolutionary travels to the Congo and Bolivia. But it also reveals a more intimate, personal side to Che, including his letters to his mother, wife and children.

In one of his last letters to his young children, Che advised them to 'always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.'

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Authors Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Assisted by María del Carmen Ariet García (Editor), Disamis Arcia Muñoz (Editor)
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.09.2021
 
EAN 9780241548745
ISBN 978-0-241-54874-5
No. of pages 384
Dimensions 135 mm x 216 mm x 28 mm
Series Penguin Classics
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries

Latin America, HISTORY / Revolutionary, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1950 to c 1959, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Marxism & Communism, C 1945 To C 1960

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