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Purgatory

Purgatory

Wright, C. D.
Zurita, Raul
Deeny, Anna

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0520259734
ISBN13: 9780520259737
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 2 2009
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
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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