One hundred years have passed since the publication of La Vorágine, by the Colombian author José Eustasio Riveraa centenary that is being celebrated within the framework of the Bogotá International Book Fair – FILBo 2024.
The collection, made up of a new edition of La vorágine and 9 other books, will be in 1,560 public libraries and 630 rural libraries, but it can also be consulted digitally and completely free of charge at this link: https://bit.ly /libraryvoragine
1. The Voragine, José Eustasio Rivera
With Bogotá behind them, the self-exiled Arturo and his companion in misfortune, Alicia, venture towards the Llanos in an attempt to free the young woman from a forced marriage.
2. Holocaust in the Amazon. A social history of Casa Arana, by Roberto Pineda Camacho
It gives an account of the enslaving practices that indigenous people suffered during the extractive boom in the Colombian, Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon. It is the result of thirty years of research, the deception to which the indigenous peoples were subjected, their slavery, their displacement, their murder, as well as their resistance.
3. Historical roots of La Vorágine, by Vicente Pérez Silva
It presents the historical, criminal and inhumane facts and episodes committed by the infamous Casa Arana, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, against the rubber tappers, settlers and indigenous tribes of Caquetá and Putumayo.
4. The story of José Eustasio Rivera, by Isaías Peña Gutiérrez
In this book, the author’s life is narrated clearly and fluidly: his childhood, the jungles, the literary salons and his death.
5. History of Orocué, by Roberto Franco García
It describes the origin and development of the town of Orocué, an account of the religious missions, the founding of the port, steam navigation on the Meta River, the stay of José Eustasio Rivera and the famous Llano War.
6. The hells of Hierarch Brown followed by Noise and desolation, by Pedro Gómez Valderrama
7. A cosmopolitan tribe. Memory of the People of the Center, edition and compilation by Marcela Quiroga and María Angélica Pumarejo
This work is a compilation of testimonies from the indigenous peoples who suffered the rubber holocaust, at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
8. Vast solitudes. Anthology of travelers in the times of La vorágine, edition and compilation by Carlos Guillermo Páramo
Various first-hand descriptions of the Eastern Plains, the Amazon and the Orinoquia between 1880 and 1920. It brings together reports from travelers, government delegates, missionaries, rubber agents, journalists and adventurers, Colombians and foreigners, as part of that kind of “cosmopolitan tribe.” ” that José Eustasio Rivera wanted to portray.
9. Women facing the Amazon maelstrom, edition and compilation by Daniella Sánchez Russo and Laura Victoria Nava
First compilation exclusively written by women who have studied The Voragine and the Rubber Holocaust in depth, from a variety of interpretive perspectives.
10. Anastasia Candré. Amazonian polyphony for the world, edition and compilation by Juan Carlos Flórez
Anastasia Candre, daughter of an Ocaina father and a Uitoto-Murui mother, belonged to people who suffered from the rubber genocide and who made a gigantic effort to survive and rebuild their lives after the years of unbridled terror.
