Chilean Poet : A Novel

Main
Fiction - Literary Fiction
Chilean Poet : A Novel

Chilean Poet : A Novel

Name: Chilean Poet : A Novel
ISBN: 9780593297940

Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell

0 / 5.0

0 comments

How much do you like this book?

What’s the quality of the file?

Download the book for quality assessment

What’s the quality of the downloaded files?

From 2011 to 2013, Chile saw waves of student protests whose leaders demanded sweeping reforms to the tremendously unequal education system—and the restrictive constitution—Pinochet left behind. During this period, Alejandra Zambra wrote primarily about the past, wrestling with the dictatorship’s ongoing legacy. The newly translated Chilean Poet, however, is the first novel in which Zambra looks primarily to the future, implicitly asking a new question: How does a society move forward after trauma, or—to put it as Zambra might—how does a country grow up?

THIS IS AN INACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF A NOVEL. SEE THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION FROM THE NEW YORKER:

This charming novel follows Gonzalo, an aspiring poet, from his teen-age sonnets and sexual escapades to his relationship with a girlfriend, Carla, and her son, whom Gonzalo adopts as his stepson. (Gonzalo notes the unfortunate resonance between the Spanish for stepfather, padrastro, and poetastro, bad poet.) The stepson, Vicente, also wants to be a poet, and the second half of the novel sends up the Chilean literary scene as he guides a gringa journalist through a country where poetry is a national passion. As one character says, “Being a Chilean poet is like being a Peruvian chef or a Brazilian soccer player or a Venezuelan model.”

Categories:

Fiction - Literary Fiction

Year:

2022

Publisher:

Penguin Publishing Group

Language:

english

ISBN 10:

0593297946

ISBN 13:

9780593297940