Overview

The first-ever edition of Che Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English in any form. Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager-and thus a letter writer-for his entireadult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor- Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full. As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, ""When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father.""

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Author:   Ernesto Che Guevara ,  Maria del Carmen Ari Garcia ,  Disamis Arcia Munoz ,  Aleida Guevara
Publisher:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9781644210956

ISBN 10:   1644210959
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   09 November 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Reading My Father’s Letters by Aleida Guevara Che Guevara Biographical Note Chronology of Che Guevara’s Life Introduction by the editors LETTERS FROM YOUTH (1947–1956) Introduction To Father (from Villa María), January 21, 1947 To Father (from Villa María), [late] 1947 To AMERIMEX (from Buenos Aires), February 28, 1950 To Mother (San Martín de los Andes), January 1952 To Aunt Beatriz (from Iquitos, Peru), June 1, 1952 To Father (from Iquitos), June 4, 1952 To Mother (from Bogotá), July 6, 1952 To Father (from La Paz), July 24, 1953 To Mother (from Cuzco), August 22, 1953 To Tita Infante (from Lima), September 3, 1953 To Mother (from Guayaquil), October 21, 1953 To Aunt Beatriz (from San José de Costa Rica), December 10, 1953 To Mother (from Guatemala), December 28, 1953 To Father (from Guatemala), January 15, 1954 To Aunt Beatriz (from Guatemala), February 12, 1954 To Tita Infante (from Guatemala), March 1954 To Mother (from Guatemala), [late] April 1954 To Zoraida Boluarte (from Guatemala), [no date] To Mother (from Guatemala), April 1954 To Mother (from Guatemala), June 20, 1954 To Mother (from Guatemala), July 4, 1954 To Tita Infante (from Mexico), September 29, 1954 To Zoraida Boluarte (from Mexico), October 22, 1954 To Mother (from Mexico), November 1954 To Tita Infante (from Mexico), November 29, 1954 To Mother (from Mexico), [late] 1954 To Father (from Mexico), [February or March], 1955 To Aunt Beatriz (from Mexico), April 9, 1955 To Tita Infante (from Mexico), April 10, 1955 To Mother (from Mexico), May 9, 1955 To Zoraida Boluarte (from Mexico), May 16, 1955 To Father (from Mexico), May 27, 1955 To Mother (from Mexico), June 17, 1955 To Mother (from Mexico), July 20, 1955 To Mother (from Mexico), September 24, 1955 To Tita Infante (from Mexico), September 24, 1955 99 To Zoraida Boluarte (from Mexico), October 8, 1955 To Mother (from Mexico), [February] 25, 1956 To Tita Infante (from Mexico), March 1, 1956 To Mother (from Mexico), April 13, 1956 To my parents (from Mexico), July 6, 1956 To Mother (from Mexico), [July] 15, 1956 To Mother (from Mexico), [August or September], 1956 To Mother (from Mexico), [October 1956] To Mother (from Mexico), [November 15,1956] To Tita Infante (from Mexico), [November 1956] LETTERS FROM THE GUERRILLA WAR IN CUBA (1956–1959) Introduction Part One: Letters from the Sierra Maestra To Daniel, October 1, 1957 To the Civic Institutions of Buey Arriba, October 12, 1957 To Mario, November 23, 1957 To Daniel, [December] 1957 To Darío and Daniel, December 4, 1957 To Darío, December 30, 1957 To Daniel, December 30, 1957 To Calixto, July 13, 1958 Part Two: Letters from the Camagüey plains and Las Villas province To Fidel Castro, September 8, 1958 To Fidel Castro, September 13, 1958 To Gómez [Raúl Castro], October 23, 1958 To Fidel Castro, October 23, 1958 To Fidel Castro, November 3, 1958 To the Provincial Leaders of the July 26 Movement in Las Villas, December 3, 1958 LETTERS AS A LEADER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT (1959–1965) Introduction 183 To Trapito [Víctor Trapote], January 12, 1959 To Juan Hehong Quintana, February 5, 1959 To Remberto Martínez Jiménez, February 5, 1959 To José E. Martí Leyva, February 5, 1959 To William Morris, February 5, 1959 To Pedro Revuelta, February 5, 1959 To Luis Paredes López, February 5, 1959 To Carlos Franqui, March 10, 1959 To Dr. Miguel Ángel Quevedo, May 23, 1959 To Valentina González Bravo, May 25, 1959 To Loreto Cabrera Cruz, May 27, 1959 To Pedro Revuelta, May 27, 1959 To María Teresa Díaz Dicon, June 1, 1959 To José Ricardo Gómez, June 7, 1959 To Aleida March, June 22, 1959 To Aleida March, June 27, 1959 To Aleida March (from India), June 30, 1959 To Aleida March, July 12, 1959 To Aleida March, [no date] To Aleida March, [no date] To Aleida March, August 6, 1959 To Company of International Airports S.A., November 30, 1959 To Miguel Grau Triana, March 18, 1960 To Ernesto Sábato, April 12, 1960 To José Tiquet, May 17, 1960 To José R. Silva, July 5, 1960 To Sr. Lorenzo Alujas, August 9, 1960 To the General Administration of the Bank of China, October 15, 1960 To Gustavo Jiménez, December 30, 1960 To Fernando Barral, February 15, 1961 To Robert Starkie, June 12, 1961 To Rolando Díaz Aztaraín, June 27, 1962 To Laura Bergquist, October 15, 1962 To Anna Louise Strong, November 19, 1962 To Antonio Venturelli, November 19, 1962 To Carlos Franqui, December 24, 1962 To Nicolás Guillén, February 28, 1963 To Editorial Grijalbo, S.A., April 1, 1963 To Guillermo Lorentzen, May 4, 1963 To Peter Marucci, May 4, 1963 To Aleida Coto Martínez, May 23, 1963 To the compañeros of the motorcycle assembly plant, May 31, 1963 To Lisandro Otero, June 23, 1963 To Daniel Gispert, September 2, 1963 To José Matar, September 19, 1963 To Manuel Navarro Luna, October 18, 1963 To Arturo Don Varona, October 28, 1963 To Pablo Díaz González, October 28, 1963 To Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, October 28, 1963 To Lydia Ares Rodríguez, October 30, 1963 To Lisandro Otero, November 10, 1963 To Juan Ángel Cardi, November 11, 1963 To Oscar L. Torras de la Luz, January 3, 1964 To Regino G. Boti, February 2, 1964 To Charles Bettelheim, February 6, 1964 To Josefina Cabrera, February 11, 1964 To María Rosario Guevara, February 20, 1964 To Luis Amado Blanco, February 25, 1964 To José Medero Mestre, February 26, 1964 To Luis Corvea, March 14, 1964 To Eduardo B. Ordaz, May 26, 1964 To Leo Huberman y Paul M. Sweezy, June 12, 1964 To Ezequiel Vieta, June 16, 1964 To Fabio Vargas Vivanco, June 16, 1964 To Regino G. Boti, June 17, 1964 To the Cuban Trading Company of Works of Art and Culture, June 25, 1964 To Hubert Jacob, June 30, 1964 To Santiago Morciego y Manuel Hernández, July 3, 1964 To León Felipe, August 21, 1964 To Elías Entralgo, August 31, 1964 To Juana Rosa Jiménez, September 11, 1964 To Julio González Noriega, September 15, 1964 To Pedro Pérez Vega, September 23, 1964 To Manuel Moreno Fraginals, October 6, 1964 To Charles Bettelheim, October 24, 1964 To Fidel Castro, March 26, 1965 LETTERS FROM AFAR: The Congo and Bolivia (1965–1967) Introduction To Aleida March, [no date] To my children, [no date] To my parents, [no date] To Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, [1965] To Fidel Castro, April 1, 1965 To Fidel Castro (from the Congo), October 5, 1965 To Armando Hart, December 4, 1965 To Aleida March (from the Congo) [no date] To Hilda Beatriz Guevara Gadea, February 15, 1966 To Haydée Santamaría, [1966] To Aleida March (from Bolivia), December 1966 To my children (from Bolivia), 1966 APPENDICES: Letters written to Che Guevara From Juan Almeida to Che (Sierra Maestra) December 20, 1957 From Celia Sánchez to Che (Sierra Maestra) December 13, 1957 From Armando Hart to Che (Sierra Maestra) December 25, 1957 From Camilo Cienfuegos to Che, April 24, 1958 From Fidel Castro, “To the Rebels of Las Villas,” (Sierra Maestra) October 2, 1958 From Lidia Doce to Che, [no date] From Raúl Roa to Che, (Havana) December 19, 1963 FURTHER READING: Books by Che Guevara

Reviews

Arrogant, affectionate, and dogmatic, Guevara (1928-1967) is intimately revealed in this compilation of personal letters sent over the latter half of his extraordinary life. In the introduction, his daughter, Aleida Guevara, writes that unlike his meticulously planned fiery speeches, Che was more open in correspondence with friends and family. Spanning 20 years, these letters reflect that earnestness, following him from his teenage years to his impassioned farewells to those he left behind in Cuba just days before he was killed in 1967. He dutifully updates his mother on his health, teases a favorite aunt, and berates his wife, all while bearing a Zelig-like witness to the hemisphere's defining political upheavals. His missives don't mince words, either, especially when it comes to criticizing the government apparatus that followed the guerilla victory led by himself and Fidel Castro. In one letter-written just before he leaves Cuba in 1965 to fight for socialism in Africa-Che outlines to Castro the multiple problems he perceives with the state's transition to socialism, surmising 'everyone involved in the management of the national economy... feels very disillusioned.' This offers a thrilling, eyewitness account of battles whose repercussions still reverberate today. -Publishers Weekly

Author Information

Born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928, and killed on October 9, 1967, the short life of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is that of one of the greatest and most enduring revolutionary figures of all time, named one of Time magazine's ""icons of the 20th century."" He was politicized first-hand during his travels as a young man around Latin America, and especially by witnessing the CIA-backed overthrow of the elected government of Jacobo rbenz in 1954 in Guatemala. He sought out a group of Cuban revolutionaries exiled in Mexico City. And, in July 1955, immediately after meeting their leader Fidel Castro, enlisted in their expedition to overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The Cubans nicknamed him ""Che,"" a popular form of address in Argentina. Four years later, after a fierce revolutionary struggle, General Batista fled on January 1, 1959, and Che became a key leader in the new revolutionary government. Che was also the main representative of the Cuban revolutionary government around the world, heading numerous delegations to Asia, Africa, Latin America and the United States. Beginning in 1965, Che lead two Cuban missions to support revolutionary struggles elsewhere in the world, first in Congo and then in Bolivia. Both of these interventions failed, and Che's accounts of these struggles in Congo Diary and The Bolivian Diary show the lessons learned and the humility and fierce intelligence with which Che approached every revolutionary struggle.

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