Zurita, Raul Purgatory (0520259734)
Raul 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 Valparaiso when, on the morning of the coup, he was arrested, detained, and tortured. Conceived as the first text of a 'Dantean' trilogy that includes 'Anteparaiso' ('Anteparadise') and 'La Vida Nueva' ('The New Life'), 'Purgatory' is his anguished response to Chile's violent recent history.
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