![]() For example, take Galeano’s report on how the Spanish arrived in Peru: ![]() They amount, as Galeano notes, to a “novel or essay or epic poem or testament or chronicle”-history written with the flair of modernist fiction. Some of the vignettes are re-creations of historical events, others Spanish documents reprinted verbatim. It begins with pre-Columbian creation myths and covers events through 1700. The first volume is a trilogy, which will run into the present day. “Memory of Fire: Genesis” is composed of 308 vignettes-scenes from the history of the Americas. He may not be a trained historian, but “Memory of Fire: Genesis” is a book as fascinating as the history it relates. “I am a writer who would like to contribute to the rescue of the kidnapped memory of all America, but above all of Latin America.” Galeano is overly modest. ![]() “I am not a historian,” Eduardo Galeano explains of the scenes he sketches. The Virgin Mary appears at Guadelupe, Mex., olive-skinned and speaking in Nahuatl. Columbus wades ashore in the Bahamas, asking the natives (in Hebrew, Chaldean and Arabic) if they can lead him to the Great Khan. In the South-American jungle, as history opens, jaguars teach men to build fires and hunt with bows. ![]()
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