Motorcycle Diaries, The (movie Tie-in Edition): Notes on a Latin American Journey (Che Guevara Publishing Project)

Guevara, Ernesto Che

ISBN 10: 1920888101 / ISBN 13: 9781920888107

Published by Ocean Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Motorcycle Diaries, The (movie Tie-in Edition): Notes on a Latin American Journey (Che Guevara Publishing Project)
• Publisher: Ocean Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1920888101
• ISBN 13: 9781920888107
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

The book of the popular movie

STARRING GAEL GARCIA BERNAL

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary.This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.

"As his journey progresses, Guevara's voice seems to deepen, to darken, colored by what he witnesses in his travels. He is still poetic, but now he comments on what he sees, though still poetically, with a new awareness of the social and political ramifications of what's going on around him."--January Magazine

"A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, 'I' turned into 'we'." --Eduardo Galeano

"When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner... To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been..." --Aleida Guevara

"Our film is about a young man, Che, falling in love with a continent and finding his place in it." --Walter Salles, director of "The Motorcycle Diaries."

Also available in Spanish: DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA (978-1-920888-11-4)

Features of this edition include:

• A preface by Che Guevara's daughter Aleida
• Introduction by Cintio Vintier, well-known Latin American poet
• Photos & maps from the original journey
• Postcript: Che's personal reflections on his formative years: "A child of my environment."
  Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana

About the Author

Che Guevara was the legendary Latin American guerrilla fighter who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship. He played a leading role in the early years of the Cuban Revolution and made an extraordinary and original contribution to Marxist theory. He died at the hands of CIA assassins in Bolivia in 1967.