Description - Tierra Del Fuego by Francisco Coloane
These nine spellbinding stories of adventure and discovery are populated with explorers, fortune hunters, revolutionaries, seafarers, ship's captains and smugglers. The undeniable protagonist in all stories, however, is nature itself. Southern Chile, the world's end, with its savage beauty - cold, treacherous, desolate - finds its ideal poet in Francisco Coloane. In his stories, this stern landscape rises like a definitive symbol of the elementary and ceaseless drama of human conflict. Francisco Coloane is a master storyteller, deftly distilling the particular from the universal and the extreme. But no abstraction can do these tales justice. Their enduring interest lies in the forceful, gripping narrative and the elements that drive it- human crimes and passions, and the land's sublime beauty and murderous wrath. 'Long arms, arms like rivers, are necessary to fully embrace Francisco Coloane. Or perhaps it's necessary to be a squall of wind, gusting over him beard and all. Otherwise, take a seat across the table from him and analyse the question, study him deeply; you will surely end by drinking a bottle of wine with Francisco and happily postponing the matter to some later date.' Pablo Neruda 'More than any other writer, Francisco Coloane is able to throw open the doors to an entirely new world.' Luis Sepúlveda 'Francisco Coloane is the greatest poet of the extreme reaches of South America . . . There are writers who have had the fortune, the ability, or the genius to reveal through their books worlds previously unknown to us . . . Coloane was one of these very rare authors.' Stefano Malatesta
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