La nueva edición de un clásico en su centenario.Un clásico de la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX, La vorágine de José Eustasio Rivera sigue al joven poeta Arturo Cova y a su amante Alicia cuando se fugan de Bogotá y se embarcan en una aventura a través de los variados y mágicos paisajes de Colombia. Tras quedar separado de Alicia en la selva amazónica, Arturo es testigo de la atroz condición a la que son sometidos los trabajadores obligados a extraer caucho de los árboles. Más relevante que nunca en su centenario, La vorágine no solo es una de las más perdurables representaciones del entorno natural en la literatura latinoamericana, sino que también funciona como una denuncia atemporal de las terribles violaciones de derechos humanos que tuvieron lugar durante el auge del caucho en la Amazonia. Una denuncia que sigue vigente en la actualidad.
"The most influential Colombian novel before Gabriel García Márquez."--Times Literary Supplement
A new translation of a Latin American classic, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover, Alicia, as they elope from Bogotá and embark on an adventure through Colombia's varied and magical landscapes. When Alicia--pregnant, jealous, and more than a little fed up--disappears, it's up to Arturo, and his unstoppable ego, to follow and win her back. From the cattle ranches of the llanos to the dense jungle of the rainforest, accompanied by hucksters, cowboys, desperate souls, and a terrifying tide of ants, Arturo pursues his bride-to-be, and becomes an inadvertent witness to the appalling conditions suffered by workers forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees.
Inventive, funny, and wildly prescient about the human and environmental costs of extractive systems, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the horrific human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom, and one of most enduring renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literature. 100 years after its publication, it remains full of verve, and ready to inspire and delight a new generation of readers and writers.
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Höhe: 194 mm
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978-1-917260-00-8 (9781917260008)
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José Eustasio Rivera nació en el municipio de San Mateo (hoy conocido como Rivera en su honor), Colombia, el 19 de febrero de 1888, y murió el 1 de diciembre de 1928 en Nueva York. Abogado y poeta, es conocido sobre todo por su gran obra La vorágine, publicada en 1924 y considerada una de las novelas más importantes de la historia literaria latinoamericana. A pesar de nacer en la pobreza rural, pudo estudiar y se doctoró en Derecho en 1922. Fue nombrado secretario de la Comisión de Fronteras colombo-venezolana, y en esta capacidad se embarcó en una expedición a la selva Orinoco-Amazónica, donde conoció de primera mano la pobreza de los caucheros y la barbarie que asolaba el territorio. Esta experiencia le inspiró los personajes y acontecimientos de La vorágine, publicado a su regreso a Bogotá en 1924. Tras representar a Colombia en un congreso internacional celebrado en La Habana en 1928, se trasladó a Nueva York con la intención de establecer una editorial, imprimir una nueva edición de El vórtice y conseguir que se tradujera al inglés. Ese mismo invierno, Rivera cayó enfermo y fue ingresado en un hospital al borde del coma. Murió repentinamente, sin que se diagnosticara su enfermedad.
José Eustasio Rivera was born in the municipality of San Mateo, Colombia, on 19 February, 1888, and died on 1 December, 1928 in New York. From a very young age, he experienced the deprivations of rural life, but was able to attend a series of educational establishments while living in poverty, eventually earning a doctorate in law in 1922. He was appointed secretary of the Colombian-Venezuelan Border Commission, as a result of which he embarked on an expedition to the Orinoco-Amazon jungle, where he came face to face with the poverty of the rubber tappers and the barbarism that plagued the territory. This experience was the inspiration for the characters he would go on to describe in The Vortex . On his return to Bogotá, he wrote articles denouncing this and other issues in the press, and in 1924 he published the first edition of his great and only novel. In the meantime, he held political posts that brought him further unpleasant experiences, which did not prevent him from representing Colombia at an international congress in Havana in 1928. From there, he moved to New York with the intention of setting up a publishing house, printing a new edition of The Vortex, and getting it translated into English. That same winter, Rivera fell ill and was admitted to hospital on the verge of a coma. He died suddenly without his illness being diagnosed.
