The Maypole Warriors
By Chilean novelist Fernando AlegríaTranslated by Carlos Lozano
ISBN: 0-935480-58-7
Price: $17.00
Pages: 192
The Maypole Warriors gives a spectral vision of the most impressive events in Chile of the 30s and 40s, especially the artistic revolution and the role played in it by legendary figures such as Pablo Neruda and Vicente Huidobro.
"...[a] visionary new novel... Alegría's Chile is
eerily akin to the Civil War Spain in Man's Hope by
André Malraux... Alegría's prose, however, is more
lyrical... He is deft at finding the evocative metaphor, the
searing image. In a stylish translation by Lozano, the book
will capture both the reader's attention and
conscience."
--Publishers Weekly
...the novel allows us a glimpse of a country that is the home of the Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda (who appears in its pages), that at one time had one of the oldest democracies in the Americas, but that has more recently become well experienced in tumult." --Booklist
"This novel aptly demonstrates how fiction often
provides a more effective vehicle than non-fiction writing
for conveying the essence and spirit of a moment in
history."
--Choice
"Originally published in Spanish in 1964, and
thoroughly revised by Alegría himself for the English
version, The Maypole Warriors, in Carlos Lozano's
intense translation, is a fully realized study of motivation
and maturation in a time of torment."
--Washington Post Book World