The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas
Salvatore Ruggiero reviews The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas today in Rumpus Books.
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...moreIt’s not like we can all launch a Kickstarter or write a book—there’ve been hundreds of books about the border, and we still have the same problem. So I get angry, and perhaps it’s less about my feeling that all this testimony is useless and more my way of raging against my own impotence toward […]
...moreCardenas picks brilliantly at this scab—the tension between the call to service and the desire for more…
...moreAt The Millions, Shivani Radhakrishnan reviews Mauro Javier Cardenas’s novel The Revolutionaries Try Again, which takes a Soviet Montage-esque approach to budding and dissipating revolutionary impulses: You’re never directly informed about what counts as revolution and who in particular is trying to achieve it. Instead, The Revolutionaries Try Again dissects a decade of Ecuadorian austerity […]
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