The Indians in the Americas

The Indians in the Americas

At the beginning of his remarkable quartet Memories of Fire, the Uruguayan novelist Eduardo Galeano gives this vivid description of the invasion of the Americas:

He falls on his knees, weeps, kisses the earth. He steps forward, staggering because for more than a month he has hardly slept, and beheads some shrubs with his sword.

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