by Luis Sepúlveda · Le Grand Livre du Mois · tapa dura · ISBN 9782286039370
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«Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda published by Le Grand Livre du Mois in hardback (131 pages, in French).
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old man living in El Idilio, in the Amazon rainforest, learned from the Shuar Indians to know and respect nature; his passion is love novels. When a female ocelot, enraged by the death of her cubs, attacks the inhabitants, Antonio must accept the challenge: he is the only one capable of tracking the animal.
Original title: «Un viejo que leía novelas de amor»; French translation by François Maspero. Winner of the Tigre Juan Prize in 1988.
Aimed at readers of Latin American fiction and stories with an ecological backdrop.
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
