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I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor

I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor

Letters 1947-1967

by Ernesto Che GuevaraMaria del Carmen Ari Garcia and Disamis Arcia Munoz
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/08/2023

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Collected for the first time, here are Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English.

"The powerful of the earth should take heed: deep inside that T-shirt where we have tried to trap him, the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience." --Ariel Dorfman

Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager--and thus a letter writer--for his entire adult life. The letters collected here range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959, from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full.

As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, "When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father."

This book is available in a Spanish language edition, Te abraza con todo fervor revolucionario.

"Che is not only an intellectual, he was the most complete human being of our age." --Jean Paul Sartre

"In these present times, when for many ethics and other profound moral values are seen to be so easily bought and sold, the example of Che Guevara takes on an even greater dimension." --Rigoberta Menchu

ISBN:
9781644212448
9781644212448
Category:
Biography: general
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-08-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
215x141x30mm
Weight:
0.42kg
Ernesto Che Guevara

Ernesto Guevara De La Serna was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. While studying for a medical degree in Buenos Aires, he took a trip with his friend Alberto Granado on an old Norton motorcycle through all of Latin America, the basis for The Motorcycle Diaries. During his travels he witnessed the Bolivian revolution in 1953; and, in Guatemala in 1954, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz by US-backed forces.

Forced to leave Guatemala, he went to Mexico City, where he linked up with exiled Cuban revolutionaries and met Fidel Castro in 1955. Che joined their expedition to Cuba, where the revolutionary war began in the Sierra Maestra mountains. At first Che was the troop doctor, and later became Rebel Army commander in July 1957. Following the rebels' victory on January 1, 1959, he was a key leader of the new revolutionary government and also of the political organization that in 1965 became the Communist Party of Cuba.

Maria del Carmen Ari Garcia

Maria del Carmen Ariet Garcia is the world's leading researcher on the life and works of Che Guevara. She is the coordinator of the Che Guevara Studies Center (Havana) that is headed by Che's widow, Aleida March. Maria del Carmen led the investigation that ultimately succeeded in finding Che Guevara's remains in Bolivia in 1997, 30 years after his assassination.

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