Purgatory: A Bilingual Edition

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.

• | Author: Raul Zurita
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: November 02, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 136 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0520259734
• | ISBN-13: 9780520259737