Biography of che guevara book
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Life of Che: An Impressionistic Biography
Published in , this Argentine graphic biography about Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an instant bestseller. Banned by a military dictatorship, and almost lost, it has never been available in English — until now.
Life of Che is one of the most anticipated entries in Fantagraphics' The Alberto Breccia Library. Originally released as part of a graphic biography series in January , it came out in Argentina only a year after Ernesto "Che" Guevara had died and reached an audience beyond comics readers. In the s, the military government raided its publisher, destroying the means to reprint the book. The comic was presumed to be lost to history, until a publisher in Spain restored it in It has never been translated into English until now.
The book begins in Bolivia in , then flashes back through Che's life — his childhood, his radicalizing motorcycle trip with Alberto Granado, his taking up of arms in Guatemala, his meeting with Fidel Castro, and his
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Immediately after their wedding, the couple had left Buenos Aires for the fjärrstyrd jungle backwater of Misiones, 1, miles up the Paraná River, on Argentina&#;s northern border with Paraguay and Brazil. There, as her husband set han själv up as a yerba mate planter, she went through her pregnancy away from the prying eyes of Buenos Aires samhälle. A doctor friend falsified the date on the birth certificate, moving it back bygd one month to help shield them from scandal.
When their son was a month old, the couple notified their families. They said that they had tried to reach Buenos Aires, and that Che&#;s mother had gone into labor prematurely. A baby born at seven months, after all, is not unusual. There may have been doubts, but their story and their child&#;s official birth date were quietly accepted.
It seems fitting that a man who spent most of his adult life engaged in clandestine activities and whose death involved a conspiracy should have begun life with a subterfuge
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Bibliography of works on Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, – October 9, ), was an ArgentineMarxistrevolutionary, politician, author, intellectual, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. His life, legacy, and ideas have attracted a great deal of interest from historians, artists, film makers, musicians, and biographers. In reference to the abundance of material, Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez has declared that "it would take a thousand years and a million pages to write Che's biography."
What follows is an extensive list of English-language works related to Che Guevara, excluding books written by Guevara himself.
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[edit]Best-selling biographies
[edit]- Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, by Jon Lee Anderson, Grove Press, , ISBN&#;
- Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, by Jorge G. Castañeda, 1st Vintage Books, , ISBN&#;
- Guevara, Also Known as Che, by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, St. Martin's Griffin, , ISBN&#;