Diarios de Motocicleta (1993)
Diarios de Motocicleta is a 1993 friends and associates book written by Che Guevara and Ann Wright.
In 1952 a 23-year-old Argentine medical student named Ernesto Guevara climbs onto a wheezing 1939 Norton motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado and points it north. What begins as a lark, chasing girls and free meals across a continent, slowly turns into something heavier. Guevara meets exploited miners, persecuted communists, and lepers cast out by their towns, and the poverty of Latin America stops being an abstraction. These are his own diary entries, written years before the world knew him as Che. The prose is young, funny, curious, and quietly changing on every page.
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What is Diarios de Motocicleta about?
In 1952 a 23-year-old Argentine medical student named Ernesto Guevara climbs onto a wheezing 1939 Norton motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado and points it north. What begins as a lark, chasing girls and free meals across a continent, slowly turns into something heavier. Guevara meets exploited miners, persecuted communists, and lepers cast out by their towns, and the poverty of Latin America stops being an abstraction. These are his own diary entries, written years before the world knew him as Che. The prose is young, funny, curious, and quietly changing on every page.
When was Diarios de Motocicleta published?
Diarios de Motocicleta was published in 1993.
Who made Diarios de Motocicleta?
Diarios de Motocicleta was written by Che Guevara, Ann Wright and Ernesto; Wright, Ann (translator) Guevara.
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The obvious next step is Walter Salles's 2004 film of this very book, with Gael Garcia Bernal riding the same roads and Gustavo Santaolalla's spare guitar underneath. Into the Wild follows another restless young man who walks away from comfort to find himself in the raw world. For the same open-road ache, Y Tu Mama Tambien drives through a Mexico laced with its own social fault lines.
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Twenty-three-year-old Ernesto Guevara sets out on a wheezing motorcycle chasing girls and free meals, and comes home changed by the poverty he meets along the way. These other journeys share that same slow transformation: a novelist and his dog crossing America, a merchant's account of a world barely mapped, a young man walking into the wild to find himself, a road trip that becomes a real reckoning with home.