Resumen

MONTALI, Gabriel. Fifty years after The open veins of Latin America. An analysis of Eduardo Galeano's literary style and writing strategy. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.2, pp.25-61. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.020.

This research analyzes the literary style and writing strategy of The open veins of Latin America, the work that made Eduardo Galeano a leading writer in the cultural field of the continent. The objective is to identify the aesthetic keys and the ideological approach that the author chose to compose a text that is usually associated with the essay genre, but that we will place here in the tradition of pamphlet writing. Precisely, the analysis of the book starts from the hypothesis that its impact in the 1970s, and its validity over time, are linked both to its theme and ideological perspective, as well as to the deployment of a writing strategy that, fifty years after its publication, still causes recognition and complicity effects in the readers. In order to identify these keys, not only the emblematic book will be used as a source, but also different journalistic and fictional texts that Galeano published at that time, together with interviews with the author and a few investigations that have addressed his work and biography.

Palabras clave : Intellectuals; Literature; Politics; Journalism; Las venas abiertas de América Latina.

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