José Eustasio Rivera (1889–1928)
Auteur de La voragine / the Vortex
A propos de l'auteur
After the publication of a book of romantic sonnets entitled The Promised Land (1921), Rivera wrote The Vortex (1924), the prototype of the Latin American jungle novel. Rejecting the traditional romantic view of the jungle as magnificent landscape peopled by innocent natives, Rivera presented a afficher plus cannabilistic, terrifying green trap that closes on the protagonist. The narrator is Arturo Cova, a persona of Rivera, whose memoirs relate his seduction of a young girl, their escape into the jungle, crime and corruption in the rubber industry, and the extreme violence that results when people's instincts are unchecked by civilization. Based on historical data, personal observation, and travel logs, The Vortex grew out of the conflict Rivera saw between literary presentations of the jungle and his own experiences of it. Rivera died of diseases contracted in the jungle in the course of his work as member of a commission appointed to settle a boundary dispute between Colombia and Venezuela. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de José Eustasio Rivera
La vorágine I 2 exemplaires
La vorágine II 2 exemplaires
Joyas de la literatura Colombiana: La Vorágine 1 exemplaire
La voragine 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Green Continent: A Comprehensive View of Latin America by Its Leading Writers (1944) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Étiqueté
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- Nom canonique
- Rivera, José Eustasio
- Date de naissance
- 1889-02-19
- Date de décès
- 1928-12-01
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Colombia
- Lieu de naissance
- Rivera, Huila, Colombia
- Lieu du décès
- New York City, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Neiva, Colombia (birth)
New York, New York, USA (death) - Professions
- poet
novelist
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 305
- Popularité
- #77,181
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 65
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1