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Overview
A novel about political commitment and liberation, set around the year 1968 and reflecting the high season of Guevara in Bolivia and attempts to insert a revolutionary 'foco' in places where objective conditions were politically ripe, but where the subjective element, and the most rudimentary organisation, were absent. The would-be, self-transforming saviour pays with his life (and that of his comrades) in a situation where rectitude is on his side but the situation quite beyond his reach. Instead of violence, this political fable presents organisation, as against movimentismo, as a possible vehicle for the chiliastic transformation.
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- ISBN-13: 9780956140913
- ISBN-10: 0956140912
- Publisher: Aesop Publications
- Publish Date: October 2010
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.91 pounds
- Page Count: 220
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