Meeting

Julio Cortázar



Enrique Brecci (illustrations)

«I remember the man who started to shout that we had to surrender, and the voice that answered him between two bursts of a Thompson, the voice of the Lieutenant, a roar above the shooting: “No one surrenders here, damm it!”»

Meeting describes the difficult days that followed the landing of the Granma on the coast of Cuba, when Ernesto Guevara made his mark as a combatant in the revolution. Written vividly in the first person, the voice of «Che» recalls their exhausting days spent among the mangrove swamps, the setbacks that he had to face alongside his comrades in arms and his baptism of fire at the battle of Alegría del Pío.

The intensity of Meeting and its epic quality based on profound emotions are an example of the incomparable talent of Julio Cortázar, and his ability to depict the profound humanity of one of the 20th century’s most admired figures.The illustrations of Enrique Breccia recreate the key moments of this account.

180 x 265 mm; 40 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-79-5

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