Anteparadise

By Raúl Zurita

Book Overview

Here is a major work by a Chilean poet thought by many to be the most brilliant and important new voice in the Spanish language. In its first American edition, this poetry is presented in Spanish and Enlgish, so that readers of both languages may listed to Zurita's voice."Anteparadise" can be read as a creative response, an act of resistance by a young artist to the violence and suffering during and after the 1973 coup that toppled the democratically elected Allende government. Zurita thus follows the example of several Latin American pets such as the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo and Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, sharing their passion and urgency, but his voice is unique.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520054342
• ISBN13: 9780520054349
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

La mejor obra de un poeta servil y funcionario

Anteparaíso es un obra que dio fama a Raúl Zurita, quizás su mejor obra poética, junto con "La Vida Nueva", de un poeta que obtuvo inmerecidamente el Premio Nacional de Literatura en el 2000, luego de escribir es vergonzosa y servil loa al poder en ese entonces por establecer (el gobierno de Ricardo Lagos Escobar), que es "Poemas Militantes". Anteparaíso nos da la poesía de Zurita en sus mejores tiempos, cuando no era un poeta funcionario, y escribía poesía de verdad. Recomendable volumen, a pesar de los yerros de su autor.