Paraguayan Sorrow

Nov 14, 2024 | monthlyreview.org | William Costa |Paraguayan Sorrow

By William Costa, translator of the recently released book, Paraguayan Sorrow, for The GuardianWhen the Spanish anarchist writer Rafael Barrett was smuggled back into Paraguay near the small town of Yabebyry in 1909, he was unrecognisable as the young newspaper correspondent who had arrived in the troubled nation five years earlier to cover an armed revolution. Physically, he was being consumed by a tuberculosis infection that would kill him the following year.