Compa?ero: vida y muerte del Che Guevara

Compa?ero: vida y muerte del Che Guevara
by Jorge G. Castaneda

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Author: Jorge G. Castaneda
Edition: Paperback
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-30
ISBN: 0679781617
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: una biografia completa pero carente de emocion
Summary: 4 Stars

El Che fue sin duda un personaje contradictorio, por un lado el revolucionario idealista, por el otro un frio burocrata manejado por la disciplina. Esta biografia lo describe como el ser humano que era, inclusive sus fallas, que al fin lo condenaron a un tragico fin. Aunque el autor cubre un campo imenso con sus multiples entrevistas y sinumero de referencias, la objetividad sin embargo, resulta en una biografia carente de emocion. Esta es una biografia cientifica, y hace falta un poco de brio para dar vida a un personaje tan lleno de suenos e idealismo.

Summary of Compa?ero: vida y muerte del Che Guevara

Cuando lleg? el momento en que fue muerto en las selvas de Bolivia, donde su cuerpo fue exhibido como un Cristo destronado, Ernesto "Che??Guevara se hab?a convertido en sin?nimo de revoluci?n en todas partes desde Cuba hasta los terrenos universitarios de los Estados Unidos. Esta biograf?a extraordinaria por uno de los m?s prominentes analistas pol?ticos de Latinoam?rica revela la leyenda del Che Guevara para mostrar el carism?tico e inquieto hombre detr?s de ella.

Tomando de los archivos de tres continentes y de entrevistas con la familia y asociados de Guevara, Jorge Casta?eda sigue al Che desde su ni?ez en la clase media argentina hasta los a?os de peregrinaje que lo hicieron un revolucionario dedicado. Casta?eda examina las complejas relaciones entre Guevara y Fidel Castro, quien lo hizo su mano derecha a?n cuando el Che se convirti? en la conciencia pol?tica de Fidel. Y Casta?eda analiza las fallas de car?cter que forzaron al Che a irse de Cuba y dar sus energias y, finalmente, su vida a aventuras quijotescas en el Congo y Bolivia. Una obra maestra de erudici?n y simpat?a literaria, Compa?ero es el retrato definitivo de una figura que continua fascinando e inspirando a gentes del mundo entero.

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