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Antartico

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«Francisco Coloane è il Jack London dei nostri tempi.»
Alvaro Mutis

Le lande desolate della Patagonia, provvide di leggende, la frastagliata costa del Cile e il mare gelido dello stretto di Magellano furono per Francisco Coloane una fonte continua di ispirazione. Antartico, dunque, è una raccolta di storie vicina ai libri più classici e fortunati dell’ come in Terra del Fuoco e Capo Horn, uno dei grandi protagonisti di questi ultimi, struggenti racconti è proprio l’oceano, popolato di figure fiabesche e di uomini coraggiosi. La natura è grandiosa, spaventa e le scogliere del Páramo, la laguna Sinaí sono lo sfondo ideale per ambientare l’avventura, lo straordinario. Alla fine è lei che vince sempre, anche se la si è frequentata tutta la vita.

119 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

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Francisco Coloane

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"The Jack London of South America"

He was born in the southern Chilean island of Chiloé. Among his most famous works (translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, German, Polish and Dutch) are: "La Tierra del Fuego se Apagó" (Tierra del Fuego Has Burnt Out, 1945), "Golfo de Penas" (Gulf of Sorrow, 1957), "El Camino de la Ballena" (The Whale's Path, 1962), "El Guanaco Blanco" (The White Guanaco, 1980), and "El Corazón del Témpano" (The Heart of the Iceberg, 1991).

Coloane was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura (Chilean National Prize for Literature) in 1964. In 1997, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Republic, where he won considerable notoriety for his work in the 1990s.

Coloane was an active member of the Communist Party of Chile for most of his adult life, and a lover of nature who celebrated his 89th birthday by swimming in the freezing waters of the Pacific Ocean - which in his opinion kept him “vital and active”.

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