by Luis Sepúlveda · Métailié · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782864242222
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«Le Neveu d'Amérique» is the travelogue and memoir by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Métailié in paperback (166 pages, in French).
After promising his grandfather to visit the family's Andalusian village, Sepúlveda traces his life across South America: political formation with an old anarchist, prison, exile, and encounters with sailors, teachers, and prostitutes, until his return to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
Work translated from Spanish (Chile) by François Gaudry, original title Patagonia Express. Travel notes; belongs to the Bibliothèque hispano-américaine collection.
For readers of travel literature and memoirs interested in the work of Luis Sepúlveda.
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
