Nouvelles du Chili

The authors of this volume have in common to seek to represent the popular world in its social and human dimensions, through stories dealing with very current subjects. Half a millennium after the passage of the Portuguese navigator Magellan, here is a snapshot of what is being written in this country on the edge of the world.Chile first fascinates with its slender shape: a narrow strip of land 4300 kilometers long and 180 wide, stretching from the Atacama Desert to Cape Horn, along the Andes Cordillera. Chile then intrigued by this mixture of populations, between Amerindians (Incas and Mapuche) and descendants of Europeans (Italians, Croats and Germans). Chile finally makes you dream with dazzling nature and mythical places: Valparaiso, Atacama, Santiago de Chile, Easter Island ..."In this land of landowners, literature is an extravaganza," wrote Roberto Bolaño. Discreetly leaning against the exuberant Argentina, Chile impresses with the permanence of literature in its DNA, imbued with an almost brutal nature, large wild spaces, and the sometimes violent jolts of its political history.