No To Dictatorship: Victor Jara
Victor Jara
$41.83
- Hardcover
64 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2023
Summary
On September 11, 1973, in Santiago de Chile, Augusto Pinochet took power and installed a dictatorship in place of the democratic government of President Salvador Allende. That day Victor Jara, a young songwriter and activist, poet and playwright is arrested and imprisoned with hundreds of other people in the Santiago stadium because of his association with the socialist opposition. His hands, so crucial to playing music, are broken by one of Pinochet’s soldiers. He is executed in the stadium …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644211823 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644211823 |
| Author: | Bruno Doucey, Ruth Diver |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Triangle Square |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 120mm |
| Series: | They Said No |
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About The Author
Bruno Doucey
BRUNO DOUCEY, born in 1961 in Jura, France, is a poet and a publisher of poets, and also a novelist and essayist. After having managed the Editions Seghers, in 2010 he created his own house which bears his name. He regularly devotes his pen to the fate of poets who are murdered.
RUTH DIVER has translated works by several of France’s leading contemporary novelists, including The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adelaide Bon, The Revolt by Clara Dupont-Monod, and Arcadia by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam. Her translation of Maraudes by Sophie Pujas won the 2016 Asymptote Close Approximations Fiction Prize.
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