[Review of] Eduardo Galeano. Memory of Fire: Genesis

The first volume of a trilogy by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire: Genesis has been called remarkable, fascinating, vivid, passionate, angry, celebratory, and triumphant. It could also be called a history of Latin America to 1700, though that gives little sense of its style or scope. In his introduction, the author describes himself as not a historian, but as a writer who would like to contribute to the kidnapped memory of all America, but above all of Latin America, that despised and beloved land. To do this he has created a great mosaic of stories, most of them less than a page long