Jorge Asís

Jorge Asís in 1976

Jorge Cayetano Zaín Asís (born March 3, 1946 in Avellaneda , Gran Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine journalist and writer.

Life

Asís comes from a family of Syrian immigrants. He began to study literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, among other things , but had to drop out of this course due to financial problems without a degree. For several years Asís worked in various professions, including a. as a salesman and peddler.

After that he first became a freelancer for the daily “ Clarín ”, and later in a permanent position. In the features section of this newspaper he commented disrespectfully under the pseudonym Oberdán Rocamora a. a. the daily politics; in style, these chronicles of daily events were adapted to the "Aguafuertes" ( Roberto Arlt ).

In the 1990s, Asís was Argentina's ambassador to UNESCO .

Works (selection)

stories

• De cómo los comunistas se comen a los niños . 1971.
• Fe de ratas . 1976.
• La manifestación . 1971.

Poetry

• Señorita vida. Poemas . 1970.

Novels

• Carne picada. 1981.
• Diario de la Argentina. Novela . 1984 ( roman clef ).
• Don Abdel Salim . 1972.
• Flores robadas en los jardines de Quilmes. Novela . 1980.
• La calle de los caballos muertos. 1982.
• La familia tipo. Novela . 1974.
• Los reventados. Novela . 1974.
• Rescate en Managua. 1986.

Political

• El Descascaramiento . 2007.
• La elegida y el elegidor . 2008.
• La ficción política . 1985.
• La marroquinería política . 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jorge Asís in the WorldCat bibliographic database

literature

• Nidia Burgos: Jorge Asís. Los límiters del canon . Editorial Catalogos, Buenos Aires 2001, ISBN 950-895-107-9 .
• William H. Katra: Novelizado el proceso argentino. "La calle de los caballos muertos" de Jorge Asís . In: Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana , vol. 18, 1992, no. 35, pp. 147-153.
• Andreas Klotsch (Ed.): 20 Argentine storytellers. Jorge Asís, Isidoro Blaisten , Miguel Briante,… 2nd edition. Volk & Welt publishing house, Berlin 1977 (explorations; 2)
• José J. Maristany: Contestation ostentatoire et adhésion. "Flores robadas en los jardines de Quilmes" by Jorge Asís . In: Imprévue , No. 1, 1965, pp. 51-68.
• Martha Paley Francescato: Entrevista con Jorge Asís . In: Discurso literario , Volume 2, 1984, No. 1, pp. 99-120.
• A. Vellaneda: "Best-seller" y code representative en la narrativa argentina del 80. El cas Asís . In: Revista Iberoamericana , Volume 49, 1983, pp. 983-996.
• Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , p. 13.