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A review by mrshood
Cartographies: Meditations on Travel by Marjorie Agosín
4.0
A chilean-Jewish poet and activist, Marjorie Agosín originally wrote these vignettes in Spanish - and they're so beautiful I am tempted to buy it in Spanish just to learn the words and say them, and see how it's even more beautiful in the original.
Each reflection is about a page (some less, some more), on memory, travel, individual cities, mothers and daughters, the Holocaust, the power of women, all infused with melancholy, insight, and achingly pretty prose. But this book is also important. I'll leave you with an excerpt from "Budapest"-
"Rarely free of the residue of bullets, the buildings of Budapest have tamed a perennial and drowsy sadness, and her walls have kept no secrets. They have revealed all so that no one can say that war and those who love war are somehow virtuous".
Each reflection is about a page (some less, some more), on memory, travel, individual cities, mothers and daughters, the Holocaust, the power of women, all infused with melancholy, insight, and achingly pretty prose. But this book is also important. I'll leave you with an excerpt from "Budapest"-
"Rarely free of the residue of bullets, the buildings of Budapest have tamed a perennial and drowsy sadness, and her walls have kept no secrets. They have revealed all so that no one can say that war and those who love war are somehow virtuous".