EAN: 9788027379668

THE PURPLE LAND THE ADVENTURES OF RICHARD LAMB ...

Richard Lamb travels through Banda Oriental (Uruguay) to find himself a perfect job and a
perfect girl while his wife back home is totally oblivious to his colourful and often comic
misadventures. Richard finds himself in various tricky spots  amongst natives and eventually
comes to an important realisation-English imperialism is bad for this place!Jorge Luis Borges
dedicated an essay to The Purple Land in his book Other Inquisitions. He compared Hudson's
novel to the Odyssey and described it as perhaps the best work of gaucho literature. Ernest
Hemingway also famously referred to Hudson's book in his novel The Sun Also Rises. Excerpt:
Three chapters in the story of my life-three periods  distinct and well defined  yet
consecutive-beginning when I had not completed twenty-five years and finishing before thirty 
will probably prove the most eventful of all. To the very end they will come back oftenest to
memory and seem more vivid than all the other years of existence-the four-and-twenty I had
already lived  and the  say  forty or forty-five-I hope it may be fifty or even sixty-which are
to follow. For what soul in this wonderful  various world would wish to depart before ninety!
The dark as well as the light  its sweet and its bitter  make me love it...

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