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Author Rivera, José Eustasio, 1888-1928, author.

Title The vortex : a novel / Jose Eustasio Rivera ; translated and with an introduction by John Charles Chasteen
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction: A Player in the Rainforest; Prologue; Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Epilogue
Summary "Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Rubber plantation workers -- Amazon River Region -- Fiction
Rubber plantations -- Amazon River Region -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
FICTION / Literary
Rubber plantations
Rubber plantation workers
Detective and mystery stories
Spanish fiction
Amazon River Region
Genre/Form Adventure stories
novels.
Adventure stories
Novels
Fiction
Novels.
Fiction.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Chasteen, John Charles, 1955- translator, writer of introduction.
LC no. 2018000302
ISBN 9780822371762
0822371766
Other Titles Voragine. English