The writer in Che Guevara

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 (All day)

The writer in Che Guevara

The name of Ernesto Che Guevara (1928 June 2 - 1967 October 9) is not normally identified remembered or acquainted with men of letters of fame or as a stalwart literary figure. But he is remembered as a radical political thinker cum revolutionary linked to the well known Cuban revolution. Due to circumstances beyond fathom or graspable globally, he is also remembered by some others as an alternative literary figure of an admirable nature who had been instrumental in the planning process of a social progress via more writing in the form of notes and diaries.

Che had been keeping notes pertaining to the teachings of Aristotle to Karl Marx which had been an inspiring practical lesson he had known from his father. His father had been of immense value to his political thinking as well as in his writing of notes and keeping diaries. He had said that he had not only followed him closely but also obtained the necessary scholarship. He had been saying to his friends at home that he was an avid reader of classics ranging from such writers as Andre Gide Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean Paul Sartre, Antonio Machado. From there onwards as a child he had learned the art of writing diaries and playing chess the two things that he admired most in his career.

He had stated in his diaries that his favourite subjects happened to be literature history and political science It is said that he had then followed by his schooling period had entered the University of Buenos Aires in order to proceed himself to take up medicine culminating in the profession of a medical doctor which he achieved. But perhaps due to his readings in various classics and political science documents ranging from Karl Marx to Lenin and Trotsky, he was torn between two worlds. The two worlds happen to be the world of the political figure and the world of the medical physician 'Which stands as better to me?' he had written in his the motor cycle diaries.

Investigations show that Che had written volumes of notes and kept in his bags that he carried from place to place. Sometimes they laid scattered. He had given much thought with his friend, and well wisher for all times he had travelled the length and breadth of South America seeing studying how people suffer from sicknesses and poverty not to mention he says about the illiteracy that had driven them to misery. He had to choose what he feels closer to his heart. -

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