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Purgatory: A Bilingual Edition

By Anna , Zurita , Raúl; Deeny

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0520259726, 978-0-520-25972-0, 978-0-520-25973-7, 0520259734, 9780520945098, 0520945093
Language
englishspanish
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5150477 bytes)
Edition
Bilingual ed
Pages
117\131
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Political persecution -- Chile -- Poetry. Chile --

Description

Raúl 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 Valparaíso when, on the morning of the coup, he was arrested, detained, and tortured. Conceived as the first text of a Dantean trilogy that includes Anteparaíso (Anteparadise) and La Vida Nueva (The New Life), Purgatory is his anguished response to Chile’s violent recent history.

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