Francisco Urondo

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Francisco Urondo

Francisco "Paco" Urondo (born January 10, 1930 in Santa Fe , Santa Fe Province , † June 17, 1976 in Mendoza ) was an Argentine intellectual , writer, university teacher and active member of the urban guerrilla .

life and work

Urondo began studying chemistry in 1948 at the age of 18, but soon switched to law. After another change to philosophy, he dropped out without a degree and moved to Buenos Aires .

Politically interested, he soon got together with people from the FAR and Montoneros (MPM) and joined the latter. During this time he also began to publish literary works and exchanged views with Mario Benedetti , Roque Dalton and Juan Gelman .

In addition to his own literary works, Urondo also began to work for television: u. a. he was significantly involved in the scripts for the classic films Flaubert's Madame Bovary , Stendhal's Red and Black and Eça de Queiroz ' Os Maias .

In 1968 Urondo was officially given the supervision and direction of all cultural affairs in the province of Santa Fe. After five years he resigned and went back to Buenos Aires. There he was appointed professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires in 1973 .

During the brief presidency of Héctor José Cámpora , Urondo was briefly imprisoned in 1973. After his release, he wrote his controversially discussed work La patria fusilada ("The executed fatherland"), in which, in addition to his own experiences during imprisonment, he primarily addressed the Trelew massacre in Patagonia.

When General Jorge Rafael Videla came to power in the spring of 1976, Urondo was dismissed and sent back to Mendoza. In May 1976, he left the capital with his partner Alicia Raboy and their daughter. A few weeks later he was murdered by soldiers in Mendoza. His wife, Alicia Raboy, or her corpse remained "disappeared" to this day. His little daughter was kidnapped and after about twenty days she was tracked down and rescued by family members in the secret prison camp in the province of Mendoza "D2". It was not until 2011 that four of the soldiers involved in the murder were sentenced to life imprisonment. Today Urondo's grave is in Mendoza. The journalist Rodolfo Walsh wrote a remarkable obituary.

Urondo's emphatically apolitical son Javier now runs a restaurant in the Parque Chacabuco district of Buenos Aires.

Works (selection)

Essays
  • Veinte años de poesía argentina y otros ensayos . Mansalva, Buenos Aires 2009, ISBN 978-987-1474-18-9 . (EA Buenos Aires 1968)
  • Argentina ... 1973.
Short stories
  • Todo eso . 1966.
  • Al tacto . 1967.
Poetry
  • Historia Antigua . 1956.
  • Lugares . 1961.
  • Nombres . 1963.
Novels
  • Los pasos previos . Hidalgo, Buenos Aires 1999 (EA Buenos Aires 1972).
Plays
  • Veraneando y sainete con variaciones . 1966.
Work edition
  • Mucha felicidades y otros obras . Editorial Arte Y Literatura, La Habana 1986.

literature

  • Ileana Azor Hernández: Francisco Urondo. Eterno perseguidor de nuevos designios y formas. In: Conjunto. Revista de teatro latinoamericano. Vol. 17 (1980), No. 46, pp. 12-21, ISSN  0010-5937 .
  • Carlos Droguett: Dos entrevistas de Francisco Urondo. La verdad . In: Actual. (Yucatan), Vol. 2 (1970), No. 6, pp. 126-132.
  • Hernán Fontanet: Francisco Urondo y su poesía. Un arma cargada de futuro . La Cuesta Publ., Newark 2012, ISBN 978-1-58871-213-4 .
  • Analía Gerbaudo, Adriana Falchini (ed.): Cantar junto al endurecido silencio. Escritos sobre Francisco Urondo . UNL, Santa Fe 2009, ISBN 978-987-657-045-9 .
  • Pablo Montanaro: Francisco Urondo. La palabra en acción; biografía de un poeta y militante . Homo Sapiens Editorial, Rosario 2003, ISBN 950-808-370-0 .
  • Pedro G. Orgambide: Francisco Urondo. Poesía y combate . In: Cambio. 7: 51-55 (1977).
  • Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-518-40485-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see main article Argentine military dictatorship (1976–1983) .
  2. ↑ The murder of Paco Urondo: four police officers, an ex-military and an intelligence officer convicted , the daily newspaper of October 10, 2011, accessed April 8, 2015.
  3. ^ Pablo Urondo, the writing Guerrillero , report by Dirk Fuhrig in Deutschlandradio Kultur on April 4, 2015, accessed April 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Urondo, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urondo, Paco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian writer, university professor and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Fe , Santa Fe Province
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1976
Place of death Mendoza