In Pursuit of Treasure Island

by Raúl Ruiz

An epic follow-up to Stevenson's classic novel Behind each children's book, behind each bestseller, a sacred text is hidden. Stevenson's novel has been scrutinized, read and re-read a thousand times. It has been used as a model for a map that leads us in search of an island where a cave that represented the sky was located. And in that sky, the stars and planets were represented by diamonds, real diamonds... Both a prelude and a continuation to Raoul Ruiz's film, Treasure Island , made in 1984, In Pursuit of Treasure Island presents itself as the follow-up, or rather a pursuit, of Stevenson's novel. It is a formidable example of the way Ruiz parodies the text and plunges the story inside the story before losing the reader in a labyrinth of strange images.

112 pages, Paperback

First published September 2, 2008

About the author

Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films.

Reviews

[Ezequiel]

La cantidad de ideas, cómo proliferan y se encadenan unas a otras de formas en cierto sentido atroces, impresiona y abruma (nada que, por otra parte, no conozcamos del cine del propio Ruiz, incluyendo su "L'île au trésor")