Eva the Fugitive

The work is a first-person narrative about a haunting experience in which the interventions of the outside world are the emblems of an inner reality, awakened, pursued, lost but ever recuperable.

About the author

Rosamel del Valle, known primarily as a poet and essayist in Latin America, came to New York from Chile as a United Nations official in 1946. He contributed regularly to Spanish-language periodicals, writing about life in New York, literary landmarks, and American writers, for whom he expressed a near veneration. He married a French-Canadian co-worker, Thérèse Dulac, in 1948 and after his retirement returned with her in 1963 to Santiago, where he died in 1965. Anna Balakian is Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. Among her many writings are several books on Surrealism, including Surrealism: the Road to the Absolute, and a critical biography of André Breton.

Summary

An early cameo of Latin American surrealism, Rosamel del Valle's erotic narrative of ecstasy and perdition creates the rhythm of the dream and the tempo of madness. A tone poem of surrealist encounter, pursuit, and loss, "Eva y la Fuga" was written in 1930 and published in 1970. This is a translation of this work.

Product details

• Authors: Rosamel Del Valle, Rosamel Del Valle
• Assisted by: Anna Balakian (Introduction), Balakian Anna (Introduction), Anna Balakian (Translation), Balakian Anna (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.1990
• EAN: 9780520071162
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07116-2
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Latin American Literature; Latin American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form