![]() ![]() Though unlike a novel it has no protagonist per se, certain “characters”-historical personages such as Christopher Columbus, the pirate Henry Morgan, or Mexican scholar and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz-make recurring appearances throughout the book, allowing the reader to see the progression of their lives. Snippets of poems and songs also appear sporadically. ![]() Each scene is based on historical fact, but Galeano fictionalizes the history by adding dialogue, interior monologue, bits of folklore and myth, and poetic description. ![]() These vignettes are arranged in chronological order but don’t necessarily lead sequentially from one to another in the way chapters of a novel do. The book consists of hundreds of brief historical scenes, each only a page or two in length. Though Genesis is certainly historical fiction, it isn’t quite a novel, but rather its own unique form of fiction. It is the first book in Galeano’s trilogy Memory of Fire ( Memoria del fuego), in which he chronicles the history of the Americas. ![]() Genesis, a book by Uruguayan novelist and journalist Eduardo Galeano, was originally published in 1982 under the Spanish title Los nacimientos. ![]()
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