Purgatorio

By Raúl Zurita

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259734
• ISBN13: 9780520259737
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.1"