A review by sonnymirrors
I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Maria del Carmen Ari Garcia, Ernesto Che Guevara, Disamis Arcia Muñoz, Aleida Guevara

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

At the end of this book I was deeply moved. I could feel tears in my eyes. Reading these letters was a journey, a historical and political one, a cultural and personal, an emotional and intellectual experience. This book took me into the various dimensions that defined Che Guevara's life, bringing closer the details and the voice than the popular image and iconic voice he's long been famous for. To read his words to different people, one gets to see the different views that informed his own and the directions his views would lead him. This collection of letters, perfectly organised, helps organise the understanding around Che Guevara, giving the reader the context and a little background of where Che's famous words and quotes come from and what meaning they hold in the context of their origin and potentially others, then and now. The greatest achievement of this offering is the beauty of the letters themselves, poetic, serious and deeply human, all at once. Che Guevara is shown to be a person of many roles and hats, but who was a human being despite and through it all. A human being who lived and died, for what he loved and believed in. This spirit of love is evident in these letters and now in the form of this book can be experienced and shared by all who engage with it. What a beautiful, interesting and inspiring experience this book was!