Purgatory / Raul Zurita ; translated from the Spanish by Anna Deeny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zurita, Raúl.

Contributor:

Deeny, Anna, 1973-

Standardized Title:

Purgatorio, 1970-1977. English & Spanish

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political persecution--Chile--Poetry.

Political persecution.

Chile--Politics and government--1973-1988--Poetry.

Chile.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 p.)

Edition:

Bilingual ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English and Spanish

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface: some words for this edition

Purgatory

NOTES

Translator's afterword speaking from the wreckage

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612772689

9781282772687

1282772686

9780520945098

0520945093

OCLC:

646846842