The Ribs of Rosinante
Richard Gott, 21 August 1997
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
by Jon Lee Anderson.
Bantam, 814 pp., £25, April 1997,0 593 03403 1 Show More
by Jon Lee Anderson.
Bantam, 814 pp., £25, April 1997,
Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara
by Jorge Castañeda, translated by Marina Castañeda.
Bloomsbury, 480 pp., £20, October 1997,0 7475 3334 2 Show More
by Jorge Castañeda, translated by Marina Castañeda.
Bloomsbury, 480 pp., £20, October 1997,
“... from La Paz to view the body, and the famous photographs were taken – later compared by John Berger to Mantegna’s Dead Christ and Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson. That evening, when the journalists had gone, the two local doctors performed an autopsy, which showed beyond doubt that Guevara had been shot long after capture, though this only emerged ... ”