Aug 15, 2010 translations to english include purgatory, anteparadise, inri, song for his disappeared love, dreams for kurosawa, and militant poems. Latin was the official language of the roman empire. Raul zurita 1950 memoria chilena, biblioteca nacional. In this landmark poem, written at the height of the pinochet dictatorship, major chilean poet raul zurita protests with ferocious invention the extinguishment of a generation and the brutalization of a nation. Corporealgeographical transformations in raul zuritas inri. Latin uses i instead of the english j, and v instead of u i. The present article examines the question of how raul zuritas poetry deals with issues of bodily pain and torture, in particular in his 2003 book inri. Inri by raul zurita, 9781934851043, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Nel 2006 riceve il premio di poesia jose lezama lima per lopera inri. Raul zurita is one of chiles most radical, influential, and prominent poets. He lives in santiago, chile, where he is a professor of literature at universidad diego portales. These problems appear in the book as attributes of the violent execution of power and are. Zurita was immediately compelled to write about zuritas inri is an homage to the chilean disappeared of 19731990, who were tortured, their eyes gouged out with hooks, then.
Descargue como doc, pdf, txt o lea en linea desde scribd. After augusto pinochets 1973 ussupported military coup that ousted salvador allendes democratically elected government, zuritas poetry sought to register the violence and atrocities committed against the chilean people and the corruption of the spanish language. These problems appear in the book as attributes of the violent execution of power and are tied to the literal and metaphorical disappearance of the victim and to his or her individuality. Zurita ha sido profesor visitante en las universidades tufts, california, harvard. It was filled with hundreds of niches, one over the other. Sua obra e marcada pela ditadura militar imposta por augusto pinochet.
This work is a response to the need to find language for these unspeakable acts. His numerous awards include the national literature prize of chile and the pablo neruda prize. Palabras clave desaparicion forzada, inri, raul zurita, oralidad, poesia chilena. Raul zurita, song for his disappeared love canto a su amor. Raul zurita, in memoriam, santiago du chili, ediciones tacitas, 2007, pp. T he letters inri are initials for the latin title that pontius pilate had written over the head of jesus christ on the cross john 19. Zurita spent four years earning his living as a computer salesman during a period of financial hardship. The present article examines the question of how raul zurita s poetry deals with issues of bodily pain and torture, in particular in his 2003 book inri. Corporeal geographical transformations in raul zuritas inri. Song for his disappeared lovecanto a su amor desaparecido. Nel 2011 viene pubblicata lopera zurita, di oltre 700 pagine, alla cui stesura lautore ha lavorato per circa dieci anni. Raul zurita is one of latin americas most celebrated and controversial poets.
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