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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221197783
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 162
Size : 130 x 205 mm
Che for Life

Collection : Mauvais esprit
Release date : 07/09/2017
For the 50th anniversary of Che’s death, Marcela Iacub draws up an unprecedented portrait by capturing an “ethical hero” inhabited by “a force of death” that he transformed into activism.
Demon or saint? Criminal or benefactor of humanity? Che remains a figure as mythologized as he is controversial. Argentinian writer Marcela Iacub—whose grandmother had a poster of the Cuban leader hanging in her room that she would kiss before she went to bed and when she woke up—has always been... Demon or saint? Criminal or benefactor of humanity? Che remains a figure as mythologized as he is controversial. Argentinian writer Marcela Iacub—whose grandmother had a poster of the Cuban leader hanging in her room that she would kiss before she went to bed and when she woke up—has always been fascinated by her compatriot’s figure. Her book is neither a plea for the defense or the prosecution, but rather aims to capture the truth of the man behind the legend. Based on both her research and her intuition, even her imagination, the author draws up a personal, lucid, and sensitive portrait of this man of “strange beauty,” whose “fate was to kill his enemies and achieve fame as a martyr for a higher cause—revolution.”
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EAN : 9782221197783
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 162
Size : 130 x 205 mm
Robert Laffont