El río que nos lleva / The River Sweeping Us Along
Novel , 1961
Penguin Random House
In The River Sweeping Us Along, Sampedro endows his title with a wealth of meanings. The river is the Tagus, far from the one idealized by poet Garcilaso de la Vega, that transforms us all into the seasonal timbers that one day will crash into the reservoir of death. A hymn to dignity and freedom. In brusque but sensual language, the narrative rhythm of The River Sweeping Us Along seems to adapt to the flow of the river Tagus, that serves as a backcloth to the ups and downs of the team of loggers guiding the freshly axed trunks down water. A novel with a great symbolic content, the central one being human dignity.
Novel
Non-fiction
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