{"id":11699,"date":"2015-05-15T00:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2015-05-15T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:50:10","slug":"eduardo-galeano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2015\/05\/15\/eduardo-galeano\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Galeano"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Many political writers don’t seem to understand that everything is possible as a subject: a fly buzzing in the air, a lighter, a window, the sound of footsteps. The most important thing is a point of view: Where are you placed? From which point of view are your eyes seeing? From which point of view will you tell us what you are feeling, or what you think?<\/strong> In some ways, Upside Down<\/i> is a political book; in other ways, it’s not. But one must be careful when discussing these matters. It’s easy to disqualify a writer or an artist, by saying, “Oh, but he’s political.” It’s like saying it’s shit.”<\/p>\n

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“Open Veins<\/i> is now considered a classic in Latin America. How many copies have been sold?<\/b><\/p>\n

I don’t care about that.<\/p>\n

Writers tend to care about the sales of their books.<\/b><\/p>\n

It’s enough that I earn a living as a writer. It’s honest work. I don’t do it to get rich. There are certain things I need to say. But I don’t care about how many books I sell, or where they are on the bestseller lists. I don’t give a damn.”<\/p>\n

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An old interview in The Atlantic from 2000 with the late\u00a0Eduardo Galeano read the rest here<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Many political writers don’t seem to understand that everything is possible as a subject: a fly buzzing in the air, a lighter, a window, the sound of footsteps. The most important thing is a point of view: Where are you placed? From which point of view are your eyes seeing? From which point of view […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[422],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eduardo-gaeleano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}