The Vortex
José Eustasio Rivera's 1924 novel of two lovers who flee Bogotá for the plains and the Amazon rainforest, in Charco Press's 2024 edition.
The Vortex (La vorágine) is a 1924 novel by the Colombian author José Eustasio Rivera, set during the rubber boom. It follows Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia from Bogotá across the eastern plains and into the Amazon rainforest, and it exposes the appalling conditions of rubber workers. Pilar Quintana calls it a dark adventure novel with an anti-hero at its centre. Charco Press published this edition in 2024.
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Pilar Quintana
It's a very painful novel, because it tells us how the indigenous peoples of those areas of Colombia became slaves during the rubber boom.
Interview · February 2023
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