The Motorcycle Diaries
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The Motorcycle Diaries is a diary about Ernesto Guevara and Alberdo Granado’s journey around South America: they left from Cordoba, Argentina, and went through Chile, Peru’, Colombia and Venezuela.
While reading the first pages, I remember I thought Ernesto Guevara’s writing style was stunning: a very well written and captivating book!
And the story is incredibly captivating to: it’s really a one-shot book; you can’t put it down once you start it.
Throughout the book, you can also notice how Guevara’s political awareness changed during the journey: he started with simple theoretical notions and ended with an inside-look at South American life and politics, and developed his own ideas about how he’d like America to be: one big unique nation where everybody is like each other; because Americans are all equal: indeed, they’re all Americans!
Another reason why I liked this book so much, is because this is exactly the travel I dream of doing one day: visiting South America on a motorcycle. Even though doing it like they did — they were like America’s guests: always finding a place to sleep and eat, or a truck to catch to go somewhere, without, almost every time, having to pay a single cent!
A very nice reading. And after you read it, you might want to watch the movie about this travel: The Motorcycle Diaries by Walter Salles.
This post was written 3 years ago on July 11th, 2005 late morning.
