Purgatory

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Books
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25.00
book_author_name: 
Raul Zurita
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
University of California Press
published_date: 
02/11/2009
isbn: 
9780520259737
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Poetry > Individual poets
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Raul Zurita|Paperback|University of California Press|02/11/2009
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9780520259737
Book 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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