WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #359 - Culture - Read: Mirrors. An Almost Universal History (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan writer and journalist, born in 1940 and

deceased in 2015. Following a military coup, he was forced to leave his
country in 1973. After being imprisoned, he went into exile in
Argentina, where from 1973 to 1976 he edited a magazine before the
military coup again forced him into exile. Threatened with death by
"death squads," he went to Barcelona, and returned to his country,
Uruguay, in 1985. ---- Editions Lux offers us a very poetic work of
history, an almost universal history. Historians keen on references,
move on, unless you are sensitive to this total decentering effected by
Eduardo Galeano. His 448-page book covers the history of humanities, of
those absent men and women that we sense in the background. Each moment
of this story proves to be written in a brief, fluid, and surprisingly
powerful way. The author invites us on a strange journey from the
deities to the darkest of dictatorial destinies. All in a language
imbued with humanism, tenderness, and altruism. He delves into the
depths of humanities, recounts the binary division of worlds into good
and evil, the sequestration of nature, the gods of war in place of the
goddesses of fertility and... Through a play of mirroring, he summons
the damned, the vanquished, and the dispossessed. Those whom Eduardo
Galeano never forgot and who are part of history. They are history, the
multitude of stories of those who populated and transformed the earth
into something habitable for all.

These mirrors reflect the humanities. One can only think of Élisée
Reclus or Pyotr Kropotkin. Eduardo Galeano, through Lux Editions, has
delivered a tale, a marvelous philosophical tale with poetic flashes,
with that happily offbeat perspective that invites us to dream, to
imagine another world, another human future where yours and mine would
become ours. If you're hoping to discover a historical compendium, with
supporting references, you're wasting your time. It would have weighed
down the subject and, above all, would have distracted from this
invitation to travel into a subversive imagination that is so salutary
in these gloomy times. An almost... universal story, which the author
has avoided in order to cast a sharp and acidic eye on the humanities.
Eduardo Galeano was a true liberating writer.

Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)

Eduardo Galeano, Miroirs, Lux, February 2025, 436 pages, EUR24.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Miroirs-Une-histoire-presque-universelle
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