Summary
Gerd Koenen: The Guevara Project: On the Dream Paths of a World Revolution
Translated from the German by Nenad Popović
This book is a biography of the historical figure and great icon of the twentieth century, Ernesto Che Guevara — in the light of his project of a world revolution, which Koenen, after Bruce Chatwin, will call the Dream Paths. It was an idealistic and apocalyptic plan directed primarily against the United States of America, the embodiment of capitalism and the world's atomic power. With this undertaking, which ultimately cost him his life, Che Guevara, even as a young man, became a universal symbol of human liberation and the first star of the New Left in the second half of the twentieth century, admired by both Jean-Paul Sartre and Patty Hearst. Koenen not only guides the reader through Che's entire life, but also describes his companions in battle. U prvom redu to su tajnovita mlada Njemica rodom iz Argentine Tamara Bunke i kubanski revolucionar i macho Fidel Castro. The scene on which these lives are played out is equally fascinating: Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Miami, Prague and East Berlin, almost all of South and Central America and, above all, Cuba from the Sierra Maestra to Havana, in all its splendor and melancholy.
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