Night
ISBN-13: 9780999261361
Author(s): Ennio Moltedo
Subjects: DC
Publisher: World Poetry Books
Publisher Imprint: World Poetry Books
Publication Date: 15-11-2022
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£18.99
About the book
Written during the Pinochet dictatorship but not published until democracy's return, Ennio Moltedo's Night is a masterpiece of controlled rage, mourning, resistance, and astonishing humour, and the first of his books to appear in English translation. Ennio Moltedo (1931-2012), whom Raul Zurita called 'one of the finest, greatest, most curious and honorable poets of Chile,' is at once lyrical and political, a dramatist, a chronicler, and a critic. NIGHT is a Kafkaesque chronicle of the Pinochet era in prose poems that encompass the lyric, mini-drama, mini-epic, and micro-fiction, and which Esther Allen has called 'surreal, agonized documents.'