Joaquin Ortega Folch — Humano Limite: Novela

Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Orbe, 1942. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An uber-scarce exemplar of one of the small number of justly celebrated items authored by the Chilean writer and journalist Joaquín Ortega Folch (1897-1973). He penned also Betsabé (1923), Una confesión (1924), Infierno gris (1950) and El misterio de la estranglada (1955), among others, says the literary critic cited below. No other copies available currently on-line, apparently. Tan softpaper wraps, rubbed and lightly soiled, chipped along edges. Interior is moderately and evenly toned, but clean and unmarked, and the text-block is tightly bound. Ortega Folch is, according to one literary critic, "a ghost in the Hispanic American literary world, and perhaps even in Chile, in the 21st century. He does not have a Wikipedia page, and the information [via] a Google search yields is scarce. A more thorough search and the international bibliography of the Modern Languages ​​Association yields zero results. There is barely a mention of Ortega Folch in a short article by Jacob Ornstein on the Chilean novel in a 1953 issue of the Revista Iberoamericana" (Pablo Brescia, review essay, translated via Google Translate, Anales de Literatura Chilena, Año 22, Junio 2021, Número 35, 291-300).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair