The Motorcycle Diaries

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This is a first-hand account of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's trip across South America with his good friend. Guevara is not a professional writer and it shows in his straight-forward delivery of the material. It's a diary and it reads like a diary. There is very little exposition here. It's just a blow-by-blow account of the events that took place. DVD. Condition: Good. 2004 DVD Good Offered by the UK charity Langdon : supporting young men and woman with disabilites. De Toledo, Lucía Álvarez (2010). The Story of Che Guevara (First Canadianed.). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: HarperCollins Ltd. p.68. ISBN 978-1-44340-566-9.

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Daniels, Anthony (2004). "The Real Che". The New Criterion. Vol.23. p.26. Archived from the original on 1 October 2004 . Retrieved 24 April 2016. (subscription required) I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.” The Motorcycle Diaries, 2004, directed by Walter Salles, Focus Features, theatrical release (126 min).What one gets from reading this little travelogue is a taste of Guevera’s natural talent for beautiful writing, and an incredible insight into the profoundly transformative power of traveling. The young man who first plans this motorcycle trip across South America with his friend Alberto Granado is a restless medical student who will suddenly be exposed to things his comfortable upbringing had shielded him from: poverty, exploitation, discrimination and human suffering on a scale he had never imagined before. This trip will plant the seed of revolution in his heart, and years later, when Guevara prepared this collection for publication, he felt the need to remind readers that his story was no one of heroism but a simple honest account of what he saw and his reactions to it. This makes it a very personal account of how one’s social consciousness develops, and where the will to change the world comes from. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon. After Alberto leaves, Ernesto travels by himself through rural villages in Venezuela. Here, he meets an enigmatic European stranger who has fled his own country because of his revolutionary actions (although Ernesto doesn’t specify what these are) and now travels around South America, waiting for the chance to participate in another movement. The stranger tells Ernesto that when revolution comes, it will be huge and “impersonal,” and that the creation of a new, proletarian society will require the sacrifice of many lives.

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Petersen, Keri (23 July 2010). "10 foreign films that make you forget they have subtitles". The Gainesville Sun. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Ernesto Che Guevara (author), Walter Salles (introduction), Cintio Vitier (introduction), Aleida Guevara (foreword) you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed. You are useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you”Cuzco is a high point for the men, and Guevara writes of how multifaceted the city is: as he sees it, there are three different Cuzcos that appeal to different people who visit it. Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu fascinate them, as well as the amalgamation of Indian and Spanish architecture, culture, and dress. Overall I enjoyed this special random free "book-in-a-bin" find, but it was not quite as inspirational as generations of Che t-shirt wearing wannabee revolutionaries would have me believe. Maybe I'm just too old? Is this something you're supposed to read when you're young and perky and stoned? Up there with Kerouac in that this book sells loafing and free loading as a form of modern spiritual enlightenment. See? I am too old. Ernesto, on the other hand, the young Argentine who went on this journey, is someone else. As Aleida writes in her beautiful preface, I am in love with the boy her father had been, and I envy his spirit which took him to journeys I can only dream of. His narration is full of pathos and sympathy, but sometimes has the coldness of pure scientific inquiry. But then again, his romanticism comes in full force and the prose becomes lyrical, poetic, even slightly excessive. Anyway, these notes read smoothly, and the discordance you might find is forgivable, considering the fact that their writer wasn't exactly a prose stylist. Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba, by Richard Schweid, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, ISBN 0-8078-5887-0