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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We Tell Ourselves Stories to Tell Ourselves Stories
It’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 […]
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Revolutionaries Try Again
Cardenas picks brilliantly at this scab—the tension between the call to service and the desire for more…
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At 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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