La vor gine is a novel of 1924, it uses old-fashioned language, by our standards nowadays. It is the story of a man who leaves Bogot and goes into the jungle and learns about the way rubber is exploited, and, of course, Indians, and the people who work there - the way they are exploited by the rubber companies. The violence of the rubber trade is recreated in La vor gine . One of its characters, Ramiro Estev nez, tells of the atrocities committed by one ruthless speculator, Colonel Funes, who orchestrated the death of over 600 Indians in what was later remembered as the Massacre of San Fernando de Atabapo. All those rivers witnessed the death of the rubber tappers, that Funes killed on the 8th of May of 1913 And don't think that when I say 'Funes' I am naming a single person.
Funes is a system, a state of the soul, it is the thirst for gold, it is sordid envy.
Many are Funes, although only one man bears the fateful name. Although there is a strain of Zola-esque writing, '' je denonce '', I denounce the social evils, in this literature these authors are also writing novels. La vor gine is a great example of a poet who runs away from the city, with a woman who gets pregnant, and slowly, in this appalling relationship he has with this woman, he starts discovering his own country. Has an affair with one of the great Cacique women of the jungle.