El canto de la tierra: W. H. Hudson y el estado natural

Against the backdrop of the ecological crisis spawned by modern progress, literature has renewed its representations of the Golden Age and of the lost organic community. The anglo-argentine writer W. H. Hudson, in his novel Green Mansions (1904), offers an early exploration of today's greatest ecological catastrophe: the destruction of South America's rainforests, pitting the idealistic but destructive invasion of Abel, the modern man, against the state of nature of the bird-girl Rima. Rima's call can still be heard at the beginning of the third millenium after Christ