Voices of Time

A Life in Stories

Eduardo Galeano, Mark Fried

• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780805077674
• eBook ISBN: 9781429900355
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself
In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy—brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole—Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political.
Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world.
Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• CONTENTS
• Time Tells
• The Voyage
• Witnesses
• Greeneries
• Footprints
• Time Plays Games
• Time Takes Its Time
• Shipwrecked Words
• Clinical History
• The Conjugal Institution
• Brawls and Squabbles
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• Subsoil of the Night
• Morals and Good Habits
• Fish
• Birds
• Woodcocks
• Spiders
• Serpents
• Afterlife
• Time Plays Tricks
• Unibody
• The Kiss
• The Oldest Man in the World
• Time Turns Pages
• Mother
• Father
• Grandmother
• Grandfather
• Labor
• Birth
• Baptism
• Christening
• Birthday
• Revelation
• Wind
• Sun
• Eclipse
• Night
• Moon
• Light Dwellers
• Morgan
• Leo
• Lord Chichester
• Pepa
• Perez
• Curious People
• The Rate of Infant Immortality
• Whispers
• Bad Words
• Useful Lessons
• Rules
• Good Health
• The Teacher
• The Students
• Condors
• Manpower
• Recompense
• The Horse
• The Final Prank
• A Bottle Adrift
• On the Waterfront
• Water
• Water Lords
• Brands
• The Fountain
• The Lake
• The River
• Voices
• The Flood
• Snails
• The Deluge
• Nets
• Shrimp
• The Curse
• The Sea
• Punishment
• Another Punishment
• Downpour
• Drought
• The Desert
• The Peasant
• Relatives
• Family
• The Offering
• Grapes
• Wine
• The Wine Bar
• Beer
• Forbidden Fruit
• Carnal Sin
• Carnal Hunt
• Carnal Affront
• Diet
• Food
• Unstill Life
• Soul in Plain Sight
• The Ginkgo
• Living History
• The Cuxin
• The Tree Remembers
• The Flower Remembers
• The Jacaranda
• The Plane Tree
• Green Dialogue
• Mute
• Alone
• Houdini
• Frogs
• Seeds
• Herbs
• The Lady Who Heals
• The Lady Who Listens
• The Gentleman Who Speaks
• The Gentleman Who Remains Silent
• First Lessons
• Judgment Day
• Map of Time
• Silence
• The Word
• The Letter
• The Letters
• The Mailman
• The Reader
• The Book
• The Ink
• Alphabet Soup
• She Tells
• He Tells
• The Shipwreck
• Praise for the Press
• Instructions for Reading the Paper
• Instructions for a Successful Career
• Against the Current
• The Hatmaker
• The Hat
• The Chosen Lady
• Flies
• Exorcism
• The Machine
• The Evil Eye
• Looking at Miro
• Not Looking
• Seeing
• Points of View
• Colors
• A Dictionary of Colors
• The Sevencolors
• The King
• Art History
• Memory in Stone
• The Painter
• The Photographer
• The Sculptors
• Kites
• The Price of Art
• First Music
• The Price of Progress
• Flutes
• The Dance
• Drummings
• The Piano
• The Harmonium
• The Electrician
• The Singer
• The Songstress
• The Song
• Another Song
• Mermaids
• Ballads
• The Idol
• The Movies
• Movie Buffs
• Television
• The Theater
• The Theatergoer
• The Actor
• The Actress
• That Applause
• The Comedy of the Half Millennium
• The Comedy of the Century
• The Comedy of the Half Century
• The Tailor
• The Airplane
• Flight Without a Map
• Flight Plan
• The Train
• The Passengers
• Are You There?
• Traffic Accident
• Red, Yellow, Green
• Advertising
• The Street
• Map of the World
• Distances
• Geography
• The Geographer
• The Albatross
• The Sun Walker
• The Port
• Immigrants a Century Ago
• The Years Soar
• Immigrants Today
• The History That Might Have Been
• Expulsion
• Good-byes
• Departure
• Arrival
• Ceremony
• Exile
• Exiles
• Time Weaves
• The Foot
• The Path of Jesus
• The Ants Itinerary
• The Salmons Way
• Poverty
• The Closed Door
• A Lesson in Law
• A Lesson in Medicine
• Maternity
• Mother’s Day
• The Latest Fashion
• Clues
• Evidence
• The Declaration
• The Sentence
• The Prison
• The Execution
• Poor Man’s Funeral
• Buried in Style
• Discipline
• The Evil One
• The Good One
• A Pro
• Another Pro
• How to Succeed in Life
• Beggars
• Work Clothes
• The Robber Gets Robbed
• The Cop Gets Busted
• Word Thieves
• Muggings
• It Happens All the Time
• Memory Stolen
• Memory Bought
• Memory Burned
• Traditions
• The Pioneer
• Another Pioneer
• Role Models
• State of the Art
• On Sale
• Marketing
• The Exemplary Banker
• A Class in Political Economics
• The Exemplary Worker
• The Exemplary Woman
• The Exemplary Athlete
• Coronation
• The Exemplary Mourner
• The Dead Woman Who Worked Miracles
• Inflation
• The Exemplary Candidate
• The Ballot and the Bullet
• The Price of Democracy
• Civilization and Barbarism
• The World Market
• The Global Government
• The White Man’s Burden
• The Wonders of Science
• The Wonders of Bureaucracy
• Incantations
• The Little Christ
• Blessed Healer
• Blessed Remedy
• Another Blessed Remedy
• Miracles
• I Give Thanks for the Miracle
• The Great Beyond
• The Virgin
• The Others
• Christmas Eve
• Easter Sunday
• The History of Fear
• The Art of Ruling
• The Anatomy of Fear
• Fright
• The Bogeyman
• The Magic Flute
• The Plague
• Red Alert
• The Opinion Mill
• The Hooded Man
• The Professor
• The Windmill
• Echoes
• The Keeper
• Losses
• Absences
• Encounters
• The Door
• Memory
• Tik
• The Hummingbird
• Sex Symbol
• The Lion and the Hyena
• The Bat
• The Shark
• The Rooster
• The Hen
• Doves
• Heroes
• The Warrior
• Earth in Flames
• Thundering Sky
• The Other Warriors
• Welcome to the New Millennium
• Newscast
• Global News
• Eternal War
• Objective Information
• Orders
• The Gunner
• Another Gunner
• And Yet Another
• Time Weighs
• Time Passes
• Time
• Hard Times
• The Light Soars
• The Challenge
• Day Is Born