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Too Late for Man: Essays (New Voices from Latin America)
Too Late for Man Essays - New Voices from Latin America Author:William Ospina A provocative collection of essays, Too Late for Man is at once a scathing and poetic critique of the pitfalls of modern society. Ospina takes a broad view of the psychic and intellectual illnesses that plague modern man. Throughout the text, Ospina cleverly weaves his own uniquely Latin American experience with the broader world view. The resul... more »t is a compilation that is certain to have an effect in all registers. Ospina has a remarkable talent for engaging, provoking, even enraging the reader. Too Late for Man is a political and philosophical inquiry of the first order. Recognized as one of Latin America's foremost writers, William Ospina was born in the Andes mountains of Colombia in 1954. He has published four volumes of poetry and four collections of essays. His 1992 collection of poems, El Pais del Viento, won the National Poetry Prize. Too Late for Man has been reviewed in Choice, El Pais, The Boston Book Review and other publications« less