La vorgine

La nueva edicion de un clasico en su centenario.Un clasico de la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX, La voragine de Jose Eustasio Rivera sigue al joven poeta Arturo Cova y a su amante Alicia cuando se fugan de Bogota y se embarcan en una aventura a traves de los variados y magicos paisajes de Colombia. Tras quedar separado de Alicia en la selva amazonica, Arturo es testigo de la atroz condicion a la que son sometidos los trabajadores obligados a extraer caucho de los arboles. Mas relevante que nunca en su centenario, La voragine no solo es una de las mas perdurables representaciones del entorno natural en la literatura latinoamericana, sino que tambien funciona como una denuncia atemporal de las terribles violaciones de derechos humanos que tuvieron lugar durante el auge del caucho en la Amazonia. Una denuncia que sigue vigente en la actualidad. "The most influential Colombian novel before Gabriel Garcia Marquez."—Times Literary SupplementA new translation of a Latin American classic, Jose Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover, Alicia, as they elope from Bogota and embark on an adventure through Colombia's varied and magical landscapes. When Alicia—pregnant, jealous, and more than a little fed up—disappears, it's up to Arturo, and his unstoppable ego, to follow and win her back. From the cattle ranches of the llanos to the dense jungle of the rainforest, accompanied by hucksters, cowboys, desperate souls, and a terrifying tide of ants, Arturo pursues his bride-to-be, and becomes an inadvertent witness to the appalling conditions suffered by workers forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. Inventive, funny, and wildly prescient about the human and environmental costs of extractive systems, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the horrific human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom, and one of most enduring renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literature. 100 years after its publication, it remains full of verve, and ready to inspire and delight a new generation of readers and writers.