Haroldo Conti

Haroldo Conti (before 1968)

Haroldo Conti (born May 25, 1925 in Chacabuco , Buenos Aires Province , † 1976  ?) Was an Argentine university professor and writer.

Life

Conti came from a politically active family; his father Pedro Conti was a partisan of Juan Perón and his movement ( Peronism ) and his mother Petronila Lombardi was a union member. He studied philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and was able to successfully complete this degree in 1954.

The following year Conti married Dora Campos in his hometown and had three children with her; Alejanda (* 1956), Marcelo and Ernesto (* 1976).

In 1962 Conti made a successful debut with his novel “Sudeste”. After a few years he was invited to Havana by the Cuban State Cultural Institute , but was only able to make this trip after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Between 1967 and 1976 he taught Latin at the Liceo Nacional N ° 7 in Buenos Aires.

On May 5, 1976, the junta, led by General Jorge Rafael Videla , seized power. Conti was one of the first to be arrested in the process of national reorganization and then allowed to disappear . On this day, the Día del Escritor Bonaerense , Haroldo Conti is commemorated along with all other writers.

Quote

Dieter Reichardt reports in his work "Latin American Authors" about Haroldo Conti:

“The common denominator that his works can be summed up is the determination of human existence through the environment, although the psychological scope for individual decisions is kept open. The ambivalence between determination and freedom does justice to the suggestive power of a language that is both precise and - through constant change of perspective - diffuse. "

Honors

• 1964 2nd Premio Municipal for "Todos los Induos"
• 1965 Universidad Veracruzana awarded "Alrededor de la jaula"
• 1975 Prize of the Casa de las Américas for "Mascaró, el cazador americano"
• 2010 The cultural institute Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti was established in the military academy Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada .

Works (selection)

stories

• Con otra gente . 1967.
• Cuentos completos . Bertleby, Madrid 2008, ISBN 978-84-95408-75-4 .
• Todos los causes . 1965.

Novels

• Alrededor de la jaule . Emecé Editorial, Buenos Aires 1995, ISBN 950-04-1501-1 .
• Mascaró, the American hunter ("Mascaró, el cazador americano"). Lamuv-Verlag, Bornheim-Merten 1985, ISBN 3-88977-024-X .
• Sudeste . New edition Emecé Editorial, Buenos Aires 1995, ISBN 950-04-1464-3 .
• En vida . Emecé Editorial, Buenos Aires 1996, ISBN 950-04-1571-2 .

Film adaptations

• Sergio Bellotti (director): Sudeste . 2003.
• Santiago Palavecino (director): Los perfumos de la noche . 2002.
• Sergio Renán (director): Crecer de golpe (based on “Alrededor de la jaule”). 1977.
• Nicolás Sarquís (director): La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro . 1983 (deals with Haroldo Conti and Luis Priamo ).

literature

• Irma Cairoli: Diálogos con Haroldo Conti . Editorial Fraterna, Buenos Aires 1984, ISBN 950-9097-30-6 .
• Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , pp. 50-51.
• Néstor Restivo: Haroldo Conti, con vida. Testimonios de sus hijor . Editorial Nueva Imagen, Buenos Aires 1986, ISBN 950-9356-24-7 .
• Gundel Ringmann: Haroldo Conti. From “Sudeste” to “Mascaró”; Haroldo Conti's development from petty bourgeois to revolutionary writer . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-631-44203-3 .
• Eduardo Romano (Ed.): Haroldo Conti alias Mascaró alias la vida . Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aries 2008, ISBN 978-950-563-940-3 .
• Simone Zittel: The depiction of time in the novel "En vida" by the Argentine writer Haroldo Conti . Master's thesis, FUB Berlin 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Haroldo Conti in the catalog of the German National Library