Antartida

by Francisco Coloane, François Gaudry (Traduction)

Deux enfants du Grand Sud chilien affrètent un cotre pour aller trafiquer par-delà le cap Horn, dans les riches eaux de l´Antarctique. Ils prennent à leur bord un sergent en rupture de ban et un Indien yaghan qui connaît le Sud comme son âme. Aventures en Antarctique, placées sous le signe adolescent et fatal du personnage d’Edgar Poe, Gordon Pym.« Vagabond solitaire, il a été péon (ouvrier agricole) d´estancia, châtreur de moutons, dépeceur de baleines, marin aux portes du cap Horn, avant de devenir le plus grand écrivain du Chili. » ― Luis Sepúlveda

91 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

"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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