1902: Saint Pierre
Only the Condemned Is Saved
On the island of Martinique, too, a volcano explodes. As if splitting the world in two, the mountain Pelee coughs up a huge red cloud that covers the sky and falls, glowing, over the earth. In a wink the city of Saint Pierre is annihilated. Its thirty-four thousand inhabitants disappear—-except one.
The survivor is Ludger Sylbaris, the only prisoner in the city. The walls of the jail had been made escape-proof.
| — | Eduardo Galeano’s Century of the Wind This is a lyrical collection of vignettes that spans the history of Latin America from 1900 to around 1980. It is the ultimate mind bender, showing many of America’s political, economic, and cultural influences from a totally inverted perspective. Traditional histories are more ethnocentric, focusing purely on the “big kid”. Century of the Wind is like hearing the story from all of the other kids on the block. |
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