Deep Rivers

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1999. 318pp."This powerful, poetic novel, set in the Peruvian Andes, has long resisted translation; its publication in English is truly a literary event. José María Arguedas draws upon his own Peruvian boyhood in portraying "the sad and powerful current that buffets children who must face, all alone, a world fraught with monsters and fire and great rivers Ernesto, the narrator of Deep Rivers, is a Child with origins in two worlds. The son of a wandering country lawyer, he is brought up by Indian servants until he enters a Catholic boarding school at age 14. In this urban Spanish environment he is a misfit and a loner. The conflict of the Indian and the Spanish cultures is acted out within him as it was in the life of Arguedas. For the author, the final resolution was his suicide in 1969. For the boy Ernesto, salvation is his world of dreams and memories. .Jose Maria Arguedas was an ethnologist, a poet, a folk musicologist, and the major Indianist novelist of our time. He was born in 1911 in Andahuaylas in rural Perú and, like Ernesto, was raised by Indian servants whom he deeply loved. He earned his doctorate in anthropology at the University of San Marcos in Lima, where he was head of the Anthropology Department at the time of his death. . While Arguedas' poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary. This makes translation into other languages extremely difficult, and Frances Horning Barraclough has done a masterful job, winning the 1978 Translation Center Award from Columbia University for her efforts." Book in excellent condition. No inscriptions. N° de ref. del artículo LitArguedas01

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