by Luis Sepúlveda · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020239301
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«Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda published by Points in paperback (120 pages, in French).
In the Amazon, Antonio José Bolívar, an old man living among the Shuar, finds refuge in love novels. When a white hunter is found dead, he recognizes the tracks of a panther and must venture into the jungle to confront it. A tale about old age, nature and indigenous memory.
Work originally published as «Un viejo que leía novelas de amor» in 1988, the year it received the Tigre Juan Prize. The translation is by François Maspero.
Aimed at the general public and readers of contemporary fiction looking for short novels with an Amazonian setting.
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.
