Publication

1985-06-01 - Humanities Pr

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Page Count

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Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100317562363
  • ISBN-139780317562361
  • Goodreads4459812
  • Open LibraryOL9561462M

Description

The book narrates the perilous journey of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, it is a story of passion, violence and vengeance within the landscape of the Amazon jungle where the two lovers flee from society, and expose throughout the plot the hard living conditions of the enslaved settlers and the native during the caucho (rubber) fever in the inhospitably jungle where human beings are under the yoke of greed for the white liquid. In this story, it is the jungle who decides the destiny, the facts and the lives of the characters. It is this story that coins a very enigmatic and revealing phrase that delineates the silence between the urban world of Latin America and the world in the Amazon jungle: "los devoró la selva!", "the jungle swallowed them!"

Subjects

Topics

Auge CaucheroArbol del CauchoRubber extraction

Places

BogotaCaquezaCasanareRio GuainiaVillavicencioAmazon jungle

People

AliciaClaritaGriseldaArturo CovaZoraida AyramClemente SilvaPajarito de Monte y Cerrito de la Sabana

Times

1879 and 1912

Other Editions

  • LA VoragineHardcoverHumanities Pr1985-06-01

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