Purgatory

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

Author: Raul Zurita
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/02/2009
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.06h x 6.02w x 0.35d
ISBN13: 9780520259737
ISBN10: 0520259734
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | General

About the Author
Raúl 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.