The Words of Others
The Words of Others
Author: León Ferrari
Editors: Ruth Estévez in collaboration with Agustín Díez Fischer and Miguel A. López
Published by X Artists Books, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9988616-2-3
Editors: Ruth Estévez in collaboration with Agustín Díez Fischer and Miguel A. López
Published by X Artists Books, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9988616-2-3
The Words of Others (Palabras ajenas) is the first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari’s uncompromising literary masterpiece (1967). A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history, the Bible, and other sources. Ferrari conceived a dialogue among supposed voices of authority, insisting on the equal complicity of individuals such as Hitler, Lyndon Johnson, Pope Paul VI, and God in perpetuating unending cycles of violence.
