Purgatory :A Bilingual Edition

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Purgatory

Purgatory :A Bilingual Edition

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Description

Raul Zurita's "Purgatory", a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Pinochet's military dictatorship (1973-1990) in the fiercely inventive voice of a postmodern master. This beautiful en face edition, superbly translated by Anna Deeny, brings to English-language readers an indispensable volume written by one of the most important living poets writing in Spanish today. Zurita was a 24-year-old student in Valparaiso when, on the morning of the coup, he was arrested, detained, and tortured. Conceived as the first text of a "Dantean" trilogy that includes "Anteparaiso" ("Anteparadise") and "La Vida Nueva" ("The New Life"), "Purgatory" is his anguished response to Chile's violent recent history.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780520259737
ISBN10 0520259734
Number Of Pages 136
Item Weight 181 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 203 x 8 mm
Publisher / Reseller University of California Press
Format paperback
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Media Reviews

"An exciting literary event." Publishers Weekly "Important and dynamic... Every young poet ... needs to read and study this book. The lessons found here will redefine poetic commitment." The Bloomsbury Review "Zurita is seen by many to be the most important poet in Chile and the inheritor of Neruda's legacy... An important book." Poetry Foundation/ Harriet "Beautifully produced, well translated, and as lyrically chilling as when it was first written in the shadow of Pinochet's ... dictatorship." Molossus

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Author's Bio

Raul Zurita, considered by many to be the heir to Pablo Neruda, is one of Latin America's most radical, influential, and prominent poets. Anna Deeny is a doctoral candidate in Latin American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

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