I Dreamt the Snow was Burning: A Novel of Chile - Softcover

Skármeta, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930523075 ISBN 13: 9780930523077

Verlag: Readers International, 2019

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Book by Skarmeta Antonio

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"In his fiction, Skármeta attempts what history has not yet been able to do in the contested reality of Chile: bring
together the fragments of the country. He consistently tries to merge experimental linguistic structures, sophisticated
literary elaboration, with earthy, everyday creativity of ordinary people." THE VILLAGE VOICE

"Mr. Skármeta's writing is imaginative, energetic and possessed of its own odd charm. His work may have
become more polished and more fully realized during his subsequent years of exile, but never more passionate or
committed. The strength of this book derives from that commitment, and the author is at his best when least novelistic, most reportorial. As Señor Pequeño realizes early on, 'Reality has a certain flavour of truth, a certain grief, lacking in dreams.'" THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"I Dreamt the Snow Was Burning, which has long been praised as a literary classic in Europe, pays some of the
same attention to family and duty [as The House of the Spirits] but is more a look at the Allende revolution
through the eyes and hearts of some of its participants and non-participants living in a cheap Santiago boarding
house. Told through a Faulknerian stream of consciousness, the novel creates an overall sense of human tragedy."
THE TEXAS OBSERVER

"A work full of tenderness and life, full of love and life. Above all, full of life." EL TIEMPO

"The intensity of feeling and emotion can be felt by the reader in every page." THE BOOK EXCHANGE

"Embracing equally the confused ambitions of Arturo, the un-worldly lyricism of El Pequeño, and the fierce idealism
of the Allendistas, Skármeta laments the savaging of all that was Chile before Augusto Pinochet. His ground in
I Dreamt the Snow was Burning is the vexing human landscape whose contradictions Allende tried to live with and
Pinochet tried to destroy." CHRISTIANITY AND CRISIS

"Although this novel deals poignantly with collective aspirations of freedom, it never dissipates into political dogma
or despair. At its core is hope that justice will prevail, even though the downfall of Chile's democratic government
ushered in years of dictatorship." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Reseña del editor

Dramatizes the final days of the Allende government in Chile, before a military coup ended democracy and began a period of violence and torture

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• Verlag: Readers International
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0930523075
• ISBN 13: 9780930523077
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236