by Louis Fischer · Genérico · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401371394
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«Gandhi» is the biography of Mahatma Gandhi written by Louis Fischer, published in 1983 in paperback (364 pages, in Spanish).
Louis Fischer traces a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, explaining his ideology of non-violence, truth, idealism, service and sacrifice. The book offers an overview of his life and of the struggle for Indian independence, framing the creation of Pakistan and the partition within that historical process.
Translation by Manuel Vázquez. Third edition in Spanish. The cover indicates that the book inspired Richard Attenborough's movie.
Recommended for those approaching the figure of Gandhi who want to understand the Indian independence movement from a biographical perspective.
Louis Fischer was an American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-communist treatise The God that Failed (1949), The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965 National Book Award in History and Biography.
