![]() ![]() ![]() "That's the only way I'll get a doctorate," Galeano joked with me once in Cuba, on the occasion of his being awarded one from the University of Havana. This meant not being able to come to Canada, where he had been nominated to receive an honorary degree from Queen's University. "We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are." He confronted terminal illness stoically, but it wore him down, keeping him close to home in Montevideo. "Courage is born of fear, certainty of doubt," asserted the Uruguayan maestro. He held true to what he called a "fugitive faith," not in any deity but in humanity itself, above all its subversive inclination to thrive even in the face of dire adversity. T he death of Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) removed from our midst not only one of Latin America's most eminent men of letters but a global citizen of immense stature, a writer unrivalled in documenting the world's weary ways and celebrating its myriad, marvellous joys. ![]() Įduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces (1991) Recordar: to remember, from the Latin, re-cordis, to pass back through the heart. ![]()
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