Southeaster by Haroldo Conti

Author:Haroldo Conti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary fiction, literary fiction, novel, translation, Haroldo Conti, Argentina, Sudeste, Spanish, disappeared, tortured, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Paraná river, man vs nature, human isolation, escape from society, survival tactics, fishing, Boga, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, twentieth-century classic, canonical work, Alrededor de la jaula, En vida, Mascaró, un cazador americano, Jon Lindsay Miles, Immigrant Press, Eduardo Galeano, Rodolfo Walsh, William Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Publisher: And Other Stories Publishing
Published: 2015-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

[I can’t say if, at the end of the day, I’ve come to be a writer, but one thing I am unarguably not is a man of letters. At the time I was writing Sudeste, I practically lived on the islands and, aside from the act of my picking up a pencil and sitting in front of a piece of paper, the story itself came from other people and things, and almost in spite of myself. In those days I didn’t know a single writer.]14

This isolation would change, of course, and might be slightly exaggerated, for he won a prize for Southeaster, and the novel appeared on the bestseller lists in the newly founded Primera Plana.15 But his sense of being marginal to dominant literary currents is further emphasised by his comments on the state of much Argentine literature. He is opposed to:

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