by Luis Sepúlveda · Circulo De Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422648505
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«Un viejo que leía novelas de amor» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (155 pages, in Spanish).
In El Idilio, a remote village in the Ecuadorian Amazon, lives Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old settler who lived with the Shuar and learned to move through the jungle and respect it. To fight the loneliness of his nights, he devours romantic stories brought by the dentist Rubicundo Loachamín, while observing how outsiders believe they can dominate the jungle without understanding its dangers.
The work was originally published in 1988 and was awarded the Tigre Juan Prize.
For readers of Latin American fiction and stories that portray the Amazon rainforest and the conflict with those who try to dominate it.
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.
