David Viñas

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David Viñas, 1969

David Viñas (born July 28, 1927 in Buenos Aires , † March 10, 2011 ibid) was an Argentine literary scholar and writer .

Life

David Viñas studied literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and was able to successfully complete this degree with a doctorate . Together with fellow students, he founded the literary magazine "Contorno" in 1953 and in this - until its last appearance in 1959 - he was able to publish his early literary works.

Politically interested and engaged Viñas was more anti- Peronist set later, then found him in the leadership of the Trotskyist aligned Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional . When the junta headed by General Jorge Rafael Videla came to power in 1976, Viñas went into exile in Europe. His two children, María Adelaida and Lorenzo Ismael, stayed in Argentina; they were kidnapped by the secret police and disappeared forever.

Viñas lived in Spain between 1976 and 1983 and for some time also in Berlin . When Argentina found democracy again with President Raúl Alfonsín , he returned to his hometown after a stay in Mexico City .

1986 Viñas accepted a position as professor for Argentine literature at the UBA. As such, he headed the Instituto de Literatura Argentina there for many years .

David Viñas died on March 10, 2011 at the age of 83 in Buenos Aires.

Honors

  • 1957: Premio Gerchunoff
  • 1962: Premio Nacional de Literatura
  • 1972: Premio Nacional de Teatro
  • 1991: Guggenheim Fellowship (He was awarded this; Viñas, however, declined the fellowship.)

Works (selection)

Essays

  • 1955: Literatura argentina y política. De los jakobinos porteños a la bohemia anarquista
  • 1970: Literatura argentina y realidad política. De Sarmiento a Cortazar
  • 1971: De los monoteros a los anarquistas * 1983: los anarquistas en América Latina
  • 1973: Momentos de la novela en America Latina
  • 1982: Indios, ejército y fronteras

Novels

  • 1955: Cayó sobre su rostro. Novela
  • 1957: Un dios cotidiano. Novela
  • 1958: Los dueños de la tierra. Novela
  • 1962: Dar la cara. Novela
  • 1966: En semana trágica. Novela
  • 1969: Cosas concretas. Novela
  • 1971: Jauría. Novela
  • 1979: Cuerpo a cuerpo. Novela
  • 2006: Tartabul. Novela

Plays

  • Dorrego
  • Lisandro
  • Maniobras
  • Sarah Goldmann
  • Tupac-Amaru
  • Walsh y Gardel

literature

  • Marcela Croce: David Viñas. Crítica de la razón polémica; un intelectual argentino heterodoxo entre contorno y Dios . Suricata, Buenos Aires 2005, ISBN 987-219940-X .
  • María D. Ferrer de Cowes: Literatura y politica en la novelistica de David Viñas . University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1976 (dissertation).
  • Cathryn A. MacBride: Speakers in discourse. A study of narrative cohesion in the Spanish originals and English translations of three American novels; Carlos Fuentes , David Viñas, María Luisa Bombal . University of Wisconsin, Madison 1977 (dissertation).
  • Pilar Roca: Política y sociedad en la novelística de David Viñas Editorial Biblos, Buenos Aires 2007, ISBN 978-950-786-569-5 .
  • Juan C. Tealdi: Borges y Viñas. Literatura e ideología . Editorial Origenes, Madrid 1983, ISBN 84-85563-19-0 .
  • Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , pp. 125-126.
  • Angela Romero-Astvaldsson: La obra de David Viñas. La nueva inflexión de "Prontuario" and "Claudia Conversa" . Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-03911-100-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A los 83 años, murió el escritor David Viñas. Clarín , accessed March 11, 2011 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ David Viñas. Adiós a un provocador. Revista Sudestada, accessed May 4, 2020 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Viñas, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2011
Place of death Buenos Aires