Contributions

  • Barraclough, Frances Horning. - Contributor
  • Ortega, Julio, 1942- - Contributor

Publication

2000 - University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

81,500 words, Guess

Page Count

326 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL6776291M
  • ISBN-100822941171
  • OCLC Control Number44013741
  • Library of Congress Control Number00009251
  • Goodreads1158886
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  • LibraryThing2602275

Classifications

  • DDC863/.62
  • LCCPQ8497.A65 Z4313 2000

Description

"The last novel by Peruvian writer Jose Maria Arguedas, set in the booming port city of Chimbote, is an expression of the human costs of rapid modernization. Tragically, the malaise of the society is reflected in the literal self-destruction of the author, a process chronicled in four diaries woven into the novel itself. Arguedas lost his struggle with suicide as he neared the end of the novel and shot himself to death, closing his own life but deliberately leaving his novel open. Fittingly, the forces of destruction in this work are wondrously transformed by language and emotion, by faith and redemption. The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below contains critical essays providing background and analyses of the text for classroom use."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Pittsburgh editions of Latin American literature

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