José Bianco

José Bianco (born November 21, 1908 in Buenos Aires , † April 24, 1986 ibid) was an Argentine journalist , writer and translator .

Bianco studied law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires , but dropped out without a degree. After a short time he became a freelancer for the magazine Sur and was able to work his way up to an important editor over the years. When he accepted an invitation from the Cuban cultural institute Casa de las Américas after the revolution in 1961 , there was a falling out with his boss Victoria Ocampo .

Bianco resigned and moved to the editorial team of the Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires (EUDEBA) that same year . He worked there until 1966 General Juan Carlos Onganía to power a coup . In the dictatorship that followed, Bianco lost his job.

On April 24, 1986, Bianco died of lung disease in Buenos Aires at the age of 78, where he found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

prose

• La pequeña gyaros. Cuentos . New edition Seix Barral, Barcelona 1994, ISBN 950-731-093-2 .
• La pérdida del reino. Novela . Ediciones B, Barcelona 1987, ISBN 84-7735-098-1 .
• Las ratas. Novela. Seguido de "Sombras suele vestir" . Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona 1987, ISBN 84-339-1752-8 .
• Sombras suele vestir. Novela . 1941.

Non-fiction

• La elección presidencial. Problemas y soluciones . Rosso, Buenas Aires 1928.
• Ficcion y realidad. 1946-1976 . Monte Avíla, Caracas 1977.
• Vidas de las instituciones politicas . Mendesky, Buenos Aires 1929.

Translations

• from English: Samuel Beckett , Ambrose Bierce , TS Eliot , Henry James , Tom Stoppard

• from French: Julien Benda , Jean Genet , Marcel Proust , Jean-Paul Sartre , Paul Valéry

media

• Daniel Balderston: José Bianco, 1908-1986. La escritura invisible . Blakman, Buenos Aires 2000 (1 videocass., VHS, 67 min.).