Description
In The Century of the Wind , the last volume of his Fire Memories Trilogy , Eduardo Galeano sheds light on the twentieth century, which was the age of "conscious killings", as Camus put it, where man declared war on nature, a dizzying speed ruled. This recent period, which witnessed two world wars as well as famines, massacres, economic crises, dictators and revolutions, and technological changes, comes to life again with his words.
Galeano, who never compromises on resisting social impositions and exploitation, once again proves that an alternative history writing is possible when he conveys these unknown or ignored stories of the American continent, which he wrote with a biased but far from heroic discourse, saluting the newborn century and reaching the year 1984.