Juan Carlos Dávalos

Juan Carlos Dávalos

Juan Carlos Dávalos (born January 11, 1887 in Villa San Lorenzo , Salta Province , † November 6, 1959 in Salta ) was an Argentine writer .

Life

Juan Carlos Dávalos came from the northern Argentine Andean province of Salta , where he spent most of his life. In 1904 he founded the magazine "Sancho Panza" together with school friends. After completing his training at the Colegio Nacional in Salta, he held various public offices, was a teacher, head of the Provincial Archives of Salta and the library there.

His son is the musician and writer Jaime Dávalos .

reception

Dávalos published an extensive work, which thematically revolves around his closer homeland and life in the Andes of Argentina, but nevertheless also deserved interest outside the borders of his country. Nevertheless, Dávalos is mainly considered a native writer who is hardly mentioned in representations of Argentine literature. He wrote poems, plays, essays and stories.

Similar to Mateo Booz and Fausto Burgos , Dávalos was considered a native writer who refused to enter the metropolitan literary scene throughout his life.

“ So Dávalos knows how to convey the atmosphere of his landscape in poems and stories and to present his people in a complex and vivid manner, because he knows and loves them. The recourse to myths and legends, as well as the use of archaic linguistic expressions, are not artificially applied stylistic devices, but part of the reality he experiences. On the other hand, with all the metrical diversity of the poems, the strength and color of the stories to which Manuel Gálvez referred in the preface to “Salta” in 1921, he hardly got beyond the limits of the literary conventions set by the 19th century. "

- Dieter Reichardt in "Latin American Authors"

Works (selection)

Poetry

• De mi vida y de mi tierra , (Salta, 1914)
• Cantos agrestes (Salta, 1917)
• Cantos de la montaña (Buenos Aires, 1921)
• Otoño (Buenos Aires, 1935)
• Salta, su alma y sus paisajes (Buenos Aires, 1947)
• Últimos versos (Salta, 1961)

prose

• Salta (Buenos Aires, 1918)
• El viento Blanco (Buenos Aires, 1922)
• Airampo (Buenos Aires-Córdoba, 1925)
• Los buscadores de oro (Buenos Aires, 1928)
• Los gauchos (Buenos Aires, 1928)
• Los casos del zorro (Buenos Aires- Córdoba, 1925)
• Relatos lugareños (Buenos Aires, 1930)
• Los valles de Cachi y Molinos (Buenos Aires, 1937)
• Estampas lugareñas (Tucumán, 1941)
• La Venus de los barriales (Tucumán, 1941)
• Cuentos y relatos del norte Argentino. Buenos Aires, 1946
• El sarcófago verde y otros cuentos . Salta, 1976

Plays

• Don Juan de Viniegra Herze (Salta, 1917)
• Águila renga, comedia política (Buenos Aires, 1928, escrita junto a Guillermo Bianchi)
• La tierra en armas (Buenos Aires, 1935, escrita junto a Ramón Serrano).

Complete edition

• Obras Completas de Juan Carlos Dávalos , 1997

Translations

• The white wind of the Andes , trans. Georg Hellmuth Neuendorff . In: Story. Stories from abroad, 1. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1947; again in dsb., From the Andes to the Atlantic. Stories from the La Plata countries. Alber, Munich 1948; again in The Most Beautiful Stories in the World. House book of immortal prose. Preface by Thomas Mann . Kurt Desch, Munich 1956, Part 2, pp. 792–801

Film adaptations

• Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Director): Güemes - la tierra en armas . Argentina 1971 (based on his novel La tierra en armas ).

literature

• Roberto Garcia Pinto: Juan Carlos Dávalos y el amor a la tierra . In: Revista naccional de cultura , vol. 2 (1980), issue 5, pp. 97-127.
• Carlos O. Nallim: Juan Carlos Dávalos. El narrador de Salta . In: Revista de literaturas modernas , 1974, issue 12, pp. 9-27.
• Alicia Poderto: Tinta y celuloide. Projecto cinematográfico sobre "El viente blanco" by Juan Carlos Dávalos . Del Robledal, Salta 1999, ISBN 987-968229-7 .
• Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , pp. 53-54.

Web links

• Some poems in the original language
• Literature by and about Juan Carlos Dávalos in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin