W.H. Hudson

Evocacion entrañable de la infancia del autor en la pampa argentina. Uno de los libros mas admirados de Hudson, que desgrana los recuerdos magicos de su contacto directo con la naturaleza. Alicia Jurado ofrece una nueva traduccion mas ajustada al original ingles.

Durante una excursión botánica, el joven Smith se sienta a descansar al borde de un barranco y, de pronto, el suelo cede y él se precipita en el vacío. Al recobrar la conciencia, se descubre en una tierra habitada por una exótica sociedad de pequeñas comunidades matriarcales, que viven en plena armonía con la naturaleza y desconocen completamente el mundo del que Smith proviene. W.H Hudson se sirve del viaje en el tiempo y la utopía para construir una intensa novela repelta de ironía, un sutil erotismo, belleza y denuncia que dibuja un mundo que ha superado las diversas formas de locura nacidas en la sociedad industrial. 

First published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and as a thinker on ecological matters far ahead of his time. The Purple Land is the exuberant, often wryly comic, first-person account of a young Englishman''s imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in nineteenth-century Uruguay. Eloping with an Argentine girl, young Richard Lamb makes an implacable enemy of his teenage bride''s father. Leaving her behind, he goes ignorantly forth into the interior of the country to seek his fortune and is eventually imprisoned and persecuted by the vengeful father. His narrative closes as he sets off on still another impetuous quest. This facsimile of the 1904 Three Sirens Press edition includes striking woodcuts by Keith Henderson illustrating the characters in the novel and the fauna of Uruguay. Ilan Stavans''s introduction offers an opportunity to revisit The Purple Land as a "road novel" in which an outsider offers reflections on nationality and diasporic identity. The Americas, Stavans, series editor; with a new introduction by Ilan Stavans

La tierra purpúreade los muy pocos libros felices que hay en la tierra, en palabras de Borges—narra el vagabundeo forzoso de un inglés por la convulsa Banda Oriental (el actual Uruguay) y su esperado

Illustrator: Dorothy P. Lathrop

Illustrators: Bryan Hook, A. D. McCormick and R. B. Lodge