The Memory of Fire Trilogy

Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind

Eduardo Galeano

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2014
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781480481435
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

All three books in the American Book Award–winning Memory of Fire Trilogy available in a single volume for the first time.
Eduardo Galeano's  Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization—or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history of North and South America, from the birth of the continent's indigenous peoples through the end of the twentieth century. The three volumes form a haunting and dizzying whole that resurrects the lives of Indians, conquistadors, slaves, revolutionaries, poets, and more.
The first book,  Genesis, pays homage to the many origin stories of the tribes of the Americas, and paints a verdant portrait of life in the New World through the age of the conquistadors. The second book,  Faces and Masks, spans the two centuries between the years 1700 and 1900, in which colonial powers plundered their newfound territories, ultimately giving way to a rising tide of dictators. And in the final installment,  Century of the Wind, Galeano brings his story into the twentieth century, in which a fractured continent enters the modern age as popular revolts blaze from North to South.
This celebrated series is a landmark of contemporary Latin American writing, and a brilliant document of culture. 

Century of the Wind

Memory of Fire, Volume Three

Eduardo Galeano

Translated by Cedric Belfrage

Contents

Preface

1900: San José de Gracia The World Goes On

1900: West Orange, New Jersey Edison

1900: Montevideo Rodó

1901: New York This Is America, to the South There’s Nothing

1901: In All Latin America Processions Greet the Birth of the Century

1901: Amiens Verne

1902: Quetzaltenango The Government Decides That Reality Doesn’t Exist

1902: Guatemala City Estrada Cabrera

1902: Saint Pierre Only the Condemned Is Saved

1903: Panama City The Panama Canal

1903: Panama City Casualties of This War: One Chinese, One Burro,

1903: La Paz Huilka

1904: Rio de Janeiro Vaccine

1905: Montevideo The Automobile,

1905: Montevideo The Decadent Poets

1905: Ilopango Miguel at One Week

1906: Paris Santos Dumont

1907: Sagua la Grande Lam

1907: Iquique The Flags of Many Countries

1907: Rio Batalha Nimuendajú

1908: Asunción Barrett

1908: San Andrés de Sotavento The Government Decides That Indians Don’t Exist

1908: San Andrés de Sotavento Portrait of a Master of Lives and Estates

1908: Guanape Portrait of Another Master of Lives and Estates

1908: Mérida, Yucatán Curtain Time and After

1908: Ciudad Juárez Wanted

1908: Caracas Castro

1908: Caracas Dolls

1909: Paris A Theory of National Impotence

1909: New York Charlotte

1909: Managua Inter-American Relations at Work

1910: Amazon Jungle The People Eaters

1910: Rio de Janeiro The Black Admiral

1910: Rio de Janeiro Portrait of Brazil’s Most Expensive Lawyer

1910: Rio de Janeiro Reality and the Law Seldom Meet

1910: Mauricio Colony Tolstoy

1910: Havana The Cinema

1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Love

1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Food

1910: Mexico City The Centennial and Art

1910: Mexico City The Centennial and the Dictator

1911: Anenecuilco Zapata

1911: Mexico City Madero

1911: The Fields of Chihuahua Pancho Villa

1911: Machu Picchu The Last Sanctuary of the Incas

1912: Quito Alfaro

Sad Verses from the Ecuadoran Songbook

1912: Cantón Santa Ana Chronicle of the Customs of Manabí

1912: Pajeú de Flores Family Wars

1912: Daiquirí Daily Life in the Caribbean: An Invasion

1912: Niquinohomo Daily Life in Central America: Another Invasion

1912: Mexico City Huerta

1913: Mexico City An Eighteen-Cent Rope

1913: Jonacatepec The Hordes Are Not Destroyed

Zapata and Those Two

1913: The Plains of Chihuahua The North of Mexico Celebrates War and Fiesta

1913: Culiacán Bullets

1913: The Fields of Chihuahua One of These Mornings I Murdered Myself,

1914: Montevideo Batlle

1914: San Ignacio Quiroga

1914: Montevideo Delmira

1914: Ciudad Jiménez Chronicler of Angry Peoples

1914: Salt Lake City Songster of Angry Peoples

1914: Torreón By Rail They March to Battle

1914: The Fields of Morelos It’s Time to Get Moving and Fight,

1914: Mexico City Huerta Flees

1915: Mexico City Power Ungrasped

1915: Tlaltizapán Agrarian Reform

1915: El Paso Azuela

1916: Tlaltizapán Carranza

1916: Buenos Aires Isadora

1916: New Orleans Jazz

1916: Columbus Latin America Invades the United States

1916: León Darío

1917: The Fields of Chihuahua and Durango Eagles into Hens

1918: Córdoba Moldy Scholars

1918: Córdoba “The Pains That Linger Are the Liberties We Lack,” Proclaims the Student Manifesto

1918: Ilopango Miguel at Thirteen

1918: The Mountains of Morelos Ravaged Land, Living Land

1918: Mexico City The New Bourgeoisie is Born Lying

1919: Cuautla This Man Taught Them That Life Is Not Only Fear of Suffering and Hope for Death

Ballad of the Death of Zapata

1919: Hollywood Chaplin

1919: Hollywood Keaton

1919: Memphis Thousands of People Flock to the Show,

1921: Rio de Janeiro Rice Powder

1921: Rio de Janeiro Pixinguinha

1921: Rio de Janeiro Brazil’s Fashionable Author

1922: Toronto This Reprieve

1922: Leavenworth For Continuing to Believe That All Belongs to All

1922: The Fields of Patagonia The Worker-Shoot

1923: Guayas River Crosses Float in the River,

1923: Acapulco The Function of the Forces of Order in the Democratic Process

1923: Azángaro Urviola

1923: Callao Mariátegui

1923: Buenos Aires Snapshot of a Worker-Hunter

1923: Tampico Traven

1923: The Fields of Durango Pancho Villa Reads the Thousand and One Nights,

1923: Mexico City/Parral The People Donated a Million Dead to the Mexican Revolution

1924: Mérida, Yucatán More on the Function of the Forces of Order in the Democratic Process

1924: Mexico City Nationalizing the Walls

1924: Mexico City Diego Rivera

1924: Mexico City Orozco

1924: Mexico City Siqueiros

The People Are the Hero of Mexican Mural Painting, Says Diego Rivera

1924: Regla Lenin

1926: San Albino Sandino

1926: Puerto Cabezas The Most Admirable Women on Earth

1926: Juazeiro do Norte Father Cicero

1926: Juazeiro do Norte By Divine Miracle a Bandit Becomes a Captain

1926: New York Valentino

1927: Chicago Louie

1927: New York Bessie

1927: Rapallo Pound

1927: Charlestown “Lovely day,”

1927: Araraquara Mário de Andrade

1927: Paris Villa-Lobos

1927: The Plains of Jalisco Behind a Huge Cross of Sticks

1927: San Gabriel de Jalisco A Child Looks On

1927: El Chipote The War of Jaguars and Birds

1928: San Rafael del Norte Crazy Little Army

“It Was All Very Brotherly”

1928: Washington Newsreel

1928: Managua Profile of Colonial Power

1928: Mexico City Obregón

1928: Villahermosa The Priest Eater

1928: Southern Santa Marta Bananization

1928: Aracataca The Curse

1928: Ciénaga Carnage

1928: Aracataca García Márquez

1928: Bogotá Newsreel

1929: Mexico City Mella

1929: Mexico City Tina Modotti

1929: Mexico City Frida

1929: Capela Lampião

1929: Atlantic City The Crime Trust

1929: Chicago Al Capone

Al Capone Calls for Defense Against the Communist Danger

1929: New York Euphoria

From the Capitalist Manifesto of Henry Ford, Automobile Manufacturer

1929: New York The Crisis

1930: La Paz A Touching Adventure of the Prince of Wales Among the Savages

1930: Buenos Aires Yrigoyen

1930: Paris Ortiz Echagüe, Journalist, Comments on the Fallen Price of Meat

1930: Avellaneda The Cow, the Sword, and the Cross

1930: Castex The Last Rebel Gaucho

1930: Santo Domingo The Hurricane

1930: Ilopango Miguel at Twenty-Five

1930: New York Daily Life in the Crisis

1930: Achuapa Shrinking the Rainbow

1931: Bocay The Trumpets Will Sound

Sandino Writes to One of His Officers: “We won’t be able to walk for all the flowers …”

1931: Bocay Santos López

1931: Bocay Tranquilino

1931: Bocay Little Cabrera

1931: Hanwell The Winner

1932: Hollywood The Loser

1932: Mexico City Eisenstein

1932: The Roads of Santa Fe The Puppeteer

1932: Izalco The Right to Vote and Its Painful Consequences

1932: Soyapango Miguel at Twenty-Six

1932: Managua Sandino Is Advancing

1932: San Salvador Miguel at Twenty-Seven

1933: Managua The First U.S. Military Defeat in Latin America

1933: Camp Jordán The Chaco War

Céspedes

Roa Bastos

1934: Managua Horror Film: Scenario for Two Actors and a Few Extras

1934: Managua The Government Decides That Crime Does Not Exist

1934: San Salvador Miguel at Twenty-Nine

1935: The Villamontes-Boyuibe Road After Ninety Thousand Deaths

1935: Maracay Gómez

1935: Buenos Aires Borges

1935: Buenos Aires These Infamous Years

1935: Buenos Aires Discepolín

1935: Buenos Aires Evita

1935: Buenos Aires Alfonsina

1935: Medellín Gardel

1936: Buenos Aires Patoruzú

1936: Rio de Janeiro Olga and He

1936: Madrid The Spanish War

1936: San Salvador Martínez

1936: San Salvador: Miguel at Thirty-One

1936: Guatemala City Ubico

1936: Trujillo City In the Year Six of the Trujillo Era

Procedure Against Rain

Procedure Against Disobedience

1937: Dajabón Procedure Against the Black Menace

1937: Washington Newsreel

1937: Rio de Janeiro Procedure Against the Red Menace

1937: Cariri Valley The Crime of Community

1937: Rio de Janeiro Monteiro Lobato

1937: Madrid Hemingway

1937: Mexico City The Bolero

1937: Mexico City Cantinflas

1937: Mexico City Cárdenas

1938: Anenecuilco Nicolás, Son of Zapata

1938: Mexico City The Nationalization of Oil

1938: Mexico City Showdown

1938: Coyoacán Trotsky

1938: The Hinterland The Cangaceiros

1938: Angico The Cangaceiro Hunters

1939: São Salvador de Bahia The Women of the Gods

Exú

María Padilha

1939: Rio de Janeiro The Samba

1939: Rio de Janeiro The Scoundrel

1939: Rio de Janeiro Cartola

1939: Montserrat Vallejo

1939: Washington Roosevelt

1939: Washington In the Year Nine of the Trujillo Era

1939: Washington Somoza

1939: New York Superman

1941: New York Portrait of an Opinion Maker

1942: New York The Red Cross Doesn’t Accept Black Blood

1942: Oxford, Mississippi Faulkner

1942: Hollywood Brecht...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Genesis
• About the Author
• Copyright Page