Name: la vorágine 39 (in Spanish)
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Author: José Eustasio Rivera
ISBN: 9789682479731

Type

Physical Book

Author

José Eustasio Rivera

Publisher

trillas

Topic

serie: lluviade clásicos

Year

2008

Language

Spanish

Pages

167

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9682479738

ISBN13

9789682479731

Edited in

México

la vorágine 39 (in Spanish)

José Eustasio Rivera (Author) · trillas · Paperback

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Synopsis "la vorágine 39 (in Spanish)"

Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they elope and flee from Bogotá into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history.

José Eustasio Rivera

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(Colombia, 1889 - New York, 1928). Master and PhD in Law from the National University of Bogotá in 1917. He served as a deputy and government inspector in the oil fields and the border delimitation commission between his country and Venezuela. His work with the jungle inspired him in the creation of his works, among them the most recognized La Vorágine, which makes Rivera a classic of pre-magical realist narrative, to the point of being considered by many as the great novel of the Latin American jungle. He also published the book of sonnets Tierra de promisión.

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