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Starred Review on September 15, 2017 | Fine Arts
Galeano (1940–2015) was a Uruguayan literary colossus and leftist intellectual, ranking with novelists Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. But he won no Nobel Prize in Literature—perhaps because he wrote kaleidoscopic histories rather than grand novels, or perhaps because he never took himself seriously. Galeano loved people and excoriated civilization. His trenchant social critique and playful style suffuse these posthu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More