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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World (in Spanish Patas Arriba: la Escuela del Mundo al Revés), originally published in Spanish in 1998, was written by Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan author who was greatly impacted by the political turmoil during the 20th century military regimes in Latin America.
- Eduardo H. Galeano, José Guadalupe Posada, Mark Fried
- 2001
9 de oct. de 2021 · Upside down : a primer for the looking-glass world. by. Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015. Publication date. 2000. Topics. Social problems, Social history -- 20th century, Economic history -- 20th century, World politics -- 20th century, Developing countries -- Social conditions. Publisher. New York : Metropolitan Books.
Upside Down, rife with subversive aphorisms and revealing statistics--to catch 100 criminals a year, Mexico City requires 1,295 police officers, while London makes do with 18--might well be his best work yet."
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1 de ene. de 2001 · The Uruguayan penner, best known for his acclaimed Memory of Fire trilogy, further indicts our culture of privilege in Upside Down. Comprised of a series of illuminating vignettes, Galeano, with his trademark wit, sarcasm, and adroit phrasings, turns his unerring critique onto the vapidity and shallowness of our modern world.
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13 de may. de 2014 · We have accepted a reality we should reject, Galeano teaches us, one where machines are more precious than humans, people are hungry, poverty kills, and children toil from dark to dark. A work of...
- Eduardo Galeano
- Mark Fried
- Henry Holt and Company, 2014
13 de may. de 2014 · From the winner of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, a bitingly funny, kaleidoscopic vision of the first world through the eyes of the third. Eduardo Galeano, author of the incomparable Memory of Fire Trilogy, combines a novelist's intensity, a poet's lyricism, a journalist's fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an ...
5 de oct. de 2001 · From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"—with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of the "The Right to Rave"—he surveys a...