Carlos Mastronardi

Carlos Mastronardi (* 1901 in Gualeguay , Entre Ríos Province , † June 5, 1976 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine journalist, writer and translator.

Mastronardi came to Buenos Aires in 1920 and met Jorge Luis Borges , along with others . This introduced him to Grupo Florida , which he soon joined. Mastronardi remained known worldwide not through his own writing, but through JL Borges. Mastronardi had set a literary monument in his story " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius " , published in 1940 .

Works (selection)

Fiction

• Conozimiento de la noche . 1937.
• Luz de provinzia .
• Tierra amanecida . 1926.
• Tratado de la pena .

Non-fiction

• Cuadernos de vivir y pensar .
• Formas de la realidad nacional .
• Memorias de un provincino .
• Valery o la infinitude de la método .

Translations

• Stéphane Mallarmé , Arthur Rimbaud , Paul Valéry ,

literature

• Juan C. Ghiano: Carlos Mastronardi . In: Boletin de la Academia Argentina de Letras , Vol. 41 (1976), Issue 159/160, pp. 129-133.
• Claudia R. de Greca: Poética e ídeología en Carlos Mastronardi . Editores Entre de Ríos, Paraná 1988.
• Juan L. Ortiz: Ultraísmo y simbolismo. La obra poética de Carlos Mastronardi . In: Revista de lengua y literatura , Vol. 9 (1997), No. 17/22, pp. 39-46.
• Elga Serurde Osman: Carlos Mastronardi. En commemoración à los 100 años de nacimiento . Editores de Entre Ríos, Paraná 2001, ISBN 950-686-091-2 .