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Tierra del Fuego de Francisco Coloane
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Tierra del Fuego (1996 original; edició 2008)

de Francisco Coloane, Howard Curtis (Traductor)

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These nine spellbinding stories of adventure, exploration and voyage are peopled with ravenous explorers, fortune hunters, foreign revolutionaries, ill-fated seafarers, intrepid ship's captains and ruthless smugglers. The undeniable protagonist around which these characters gravitate is nature herself. The enduring beauty of the tales lies in the forceful, gripping narrative and the elements that principally comprise this narrative: men, their crimes, passions and the land itself - in all its breathtaking glory and murderous wrath.… (més)
Membre:guybrarian
Títol:Tierra del Fuego
Autors:Francisco Coloane
Altres autors:Howard Curtis (Traductor)
Informació:Europa Editions (2008), Paperback, 176 pages
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Valoració:****
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Please read blurb first. Any book both Alvaro Mutis and Pablo Neruda love is aces. For starters.

Coloane has the initial great gift of a vast and terrifying beautiful landscape on which human beings stand as if on the moon. And he does it justice, mostly, in his tales of human beings living their lives out, scratching small marks in this country. Many lives-and-deaths he depicts as single events-- it's a scale issue. This is instinctively brilliant, and limns the true size of his real character, the land and sea at the very end of the Americas, marked with names like Port Eden and Last Hope Sound. ( )
  AnnKlefstad | Feb 4, 2022 |
Wonderfully descriptive short stories set in the brutally beautiful landscapes of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh descriptions of how this desolate landscape, sat between two hammers, the sea and the Andes, crushes all humanity before the west wind comes through to blow away the dust. I would have to believe that these stories have strongly influenced the writing of Cormac McCarthy.

A beautiful read, and I really, really want to go to Tierra del Fuego now. ( )
  Cliff_F | Sep 11, 2020 |
This is a collection of nine exquisite stories by revered Chilean author Francisco Coloane. Coloane spins tales in spare, expressive prose about life in the lonely pampas, mountains and rugged islands and coastlines of Chile's southernmost country. For the most part, the characters are men, in small groups or in pairs, interacting for good or ill with the hazzards of land and sea and with their own frailties, both spiritual and physical, and, of course, with each other. In one of my favorite stories in the collection, "The Empty Bottle," two men, unknown to each other, meet at random as they ride their horses across the pampas. Their journeys are taking them in the same direction, so they ride along together for a while, lost in their own thoughts. The younger of the two thinks of his fiance, waiting in a far off town, and his desire to return to her. The older thinks of a murder he has committed years back in almost identical circumstances.

One of the blurbs on the book's cover refers to Coloane as "the Jack London of our times." I suppose in terms of subject matter, this might be apt. Stylistically to me it seems less so, though admittedly it's been a long time since I read much London. This is going to be a fairly obscure reference, but Coloane's writing brought to mind for me that of Finnish author Väinö Linna's "Under the North Star" trilogy. Another of my favorites, here, "How the Chilote Otey Died," about a group of survivors of a failed uprising on the run from pursuers intent on deadly retribution, particularly reminded me of Linna.

Here is Pablo Neruda's quote as offered on the back cover of my Europa Edition copy of this collection:

"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 analyze 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."

I had never heard of Coloane until my wife and I traveled in Argentina and southern Chile this past November. We spent almost a week on the large Chilean island of Chiloe, and happened to visit the town of Quemchi, where Coloane was born, and where there is a statue of him in the town square. In fact, the square is basically dedicated to him. My curiosity piqued, upon returning home I immediately went online and ordered two collections of his stories in translation, this one, and [Cape Horn and other Stories from the End of the World]. I will immediately be putting Cape Horn into my "between book" reading rotation. ( )
  rocketjk | Apr 5, 2020 |
Blurbs describing Coloane as the "South American Jack London" are spot on. Nine stories, all memorable, depicting life at the end of the world. Reminds me of Saki a little, too. ( )
  HenryKrinkle | Jul 23, 2014 |
Les nouvelles de Francisco Coloane sont de celles qui éveillent immédiatement un besoin urgent de voir du pays, partir au bout du monde tâter de la beauté sauvage de la Terre de Feu et y rencontrer l'espace d'un récit de sombres personnages aux rêves meurtris mais à l'humanité intacte... ( )
  timtom | Nov 14, 2011 |
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These nine spellbinding stories of adventure, exploration and voyage are peopled with ravenous explorers, fortune hunters, foreign revolutionaries, ill-fated seafarers, intrepid ship's captains and ruthless smugglers. The undeniable protagonist around which these characters gravitate is nature herself. The enduring beauty of the tales lies in the forceful, gripping narrative and the elements that principally comprise this narrative: men, their crimes, passions and the land itself - in all its breathtaking glory and murderous wrath.

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