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The Vortex

by José Eustasio Rivera

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Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history.… (more)
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Quisiera señalar la excelencia de esta edición crítica (Cátedra, 2006) al encargo de Montserrat Ordóñez. No es un libro fácil de leer sin ayuda, y su ensayo introductorio, y las notas al pie de la página que acompañan el texto, ayudan muchísimo. No se trata solamente de aclaraciones de palabras dudosas: Ordóñez también sintetiza las consideraciones críticas de diferentes pasajes y elementos de la novela en largos y elucidantes comentarios. Habría sido una experiencia mucho más difícil, y menos divertida, leer este libro sin su ayuda.

Creo que el libro de Rivera merece releerse hoy, en 2013, un par de décadas después del comentario de Carlos Fuentes sobre cómo los autores anteriores a la generación Boom fueron devorados por la selva, la pampa, la naturaleza américana... no me acuerdo exactamente de cómo lo dijo, pero de todos modos creo que se mantenía durante muchos años la idea de que novelas como La vorágine fueron inferiores a las obras cumbres de los años 60, y que representaron una época "inmadura" de la literatura de la región. A mí me gustan las novelas del Boom, pero creo que, después de todo, prefiero La vorágine a muchas de ellas. Las faltas que algunos lectores encontraron en ellas no necesariamente lucen como tales ahora.

Digo eso porque a mí me encantó lo excesivo, lo desbordante, lo caótico, de la representación de la naturaleza y de las experiencias del poeta Arturo Cova y compañía como iban profundizándose en la selva. Todo se torna tan, tan loco al final, y Cova siempre se excede con el alcohol en los momentos más importantes, y de repente hay mucha sangre brotando de los muñones de uno de los personajes secundarios, y hay muertes horribles, contadas con todas las detalles...

Bueno, quería constatar lo bueno que es esta edición, y recomendar la lectura de La vorágine con las novelas del Boom porque fue, para mí, una revelación. ( )
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Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history.

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