Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of
twentieth-century Latin American literature, Jose Eustasio Rivera's
The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet
Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogota 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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