Purgatory [[electronic resource] /] / Raúl Zurita ; translated from the Spanish by Anna Deeny

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791689203321
• Autore: Zurita Raúl
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-77268-6; 9786612772689; 0-520-94509-3
• Edizione: [Bilingual ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (131 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DeenyAnna <1973->
• Disciplina: 861/.64
• Soggetti: Political persecution - Chile; Chile Politics and government 1973-1988 Poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface: some words for this edition -- Purgatory -- NOTES -- Translator's afterword speaking from the wreckage
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.