by Luis Sepúlveda · Maxi-Tusquets · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788483835302
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«Un viejo que leía novelas de amor» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old man living in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, learned from the Shuar to respect their laws and takes refuge in love novels brought to him by the dentist Rubicundo Loachamín. When greedy outsiders kill the cubs of an ocelot, the old man must face the beast.
Work originally published in 1988 and winner of the Tigre Juan Prize. This edition is from 2009 and corresponds to number 13 of the Maxi collection.
For readers of classics of Latin American narrative who want a short story about the jungle, old age, and literature as consolation.
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.
