Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of
twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio
Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young
poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá
and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After
being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the
jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those
forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by
con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex
is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that
took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most
famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American
literary history.
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