Hector Murena

Héctor Alberto Álvarez Murena (also HA Murena; * 1923 in Buenos Aires , † 1975 there ) was an Argentine writer .

Murena studied at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the Universidad de Buenos Aires . After successfully completing his degree, he got a job with the daily newspaper “ La Nación ”, where he did a. a. also the acquaintance of Silvina Bullrich and Mateo Booz ; But there was never any real collaboration.

Murena later wrote for newspapers and magazines such as "Lettres Nouvelles", "Sur" and the like. a.

reception

Murena wrote a single play "El juez", which was highly praised by the audience as well as by official critics. In it he deals with the drama of a bourgeois family, torn from their Biedermeier character, he lets them experience hell.

In his trilogy “Historica” Murena shows himself entirely as a student of Eduardo Mallea . Stylishly, frighteningly rabulist and ironically written, it is considered one of his most important works. Another cycle, which remained unfinished, is entitled “ El sueño de la razón ” and pays homage to Francisco Goya .

Works (selection)

Essays

• Ensayos sobre subversión . 1963.
• Homo atomicus . 1961.
• El nombre secreto . 1969.
• El pecado original de America . 1954.

Poetry

• El círculo de los paraísos . 1958.
• El demonio de la armoría . 1964.
• El escándolo y el fuego . 1959.
• La vida nueva . 1951.

Novels

• Historia. Trilogia ("La falidad de los cuerpos", "Las leyes de la noche", "Los herederos de la promesa").
• Visiones de Babel .
• El sueño de löa razón .
• Epitalámica . 1969.
• Polispuercón . 1970.

as translator and editor

• Theodor Adorno
• Walter benjamin
• Jürgen Habermas
• Max Horkheimer
• Herbert Marcuse
• Ezequiel Martínez Estrada

literature

• Helmut C. Jacobi: The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters . Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3-7965-2261-1 .
• Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Verlag Erdmann, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , pp. 109-110.