Juan José Saer

Juan José Saer

Juan José Saer (born June 28, 1937 in Serodino, Santa Fe Province , † June 11, 2005 in Paris ) was an Argentine writer .

Life

The son of Syrian immigrants studied law and philosophy, was a professor of literature in Argentina and emigrated to France in 1968. In 1988 he received the prestigious Spanish literary prize Premio Nadal for his book "La Ocasion" and the Prix France Culture in France.

His best-known work is the crime novel Investigations , published in Germany in 2005 .

Works

• En la zona , 1960
• Responso , 1964
• Palo y hueso , 1965
• La vuelta completa , 1966
• Unidad de lugar , 1967
• Cicatrices , 1968
• El limonero real , 1974
• La mayor , 1976
• Nadie nada nunca , 1980
• Narraciones , 1983
• El entenado , 1983, Ger . The ancestor , Piper, Munich 1993 ISBN 3-492-11691-4 .
• Glosa , 1986
• El arte de narrar , 1988
• La ocasión , 1988, German The opportunity , Piper, Munich 1992 ISBN 3-492-11567-5 .
• El río sin orillas , 1991
• Lo imborrable , 1993
• La pesquisa , 1994, German investigations , DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verlag, Cologne 2005 ISBN 3-8321-7906-2 .
• El concepto de ficción , 1997
• Las nubes , 1997
• La grande , 2005

literature

• David Freudenthal: Juan José Saer . In: Critical lexicon for contemporary foreign language literature . 69th delivery, March 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Juan José Saer in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Literature by and about Juan José Saer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Murders here and there . Vera Elisabeth Gerling on the translation of investigations by Hanna Grzimek , in ReLÜ , review magazine , 2, 2005
• About the silence of the unsaid. Investigations in the press. Gerling on the reviews of the novel in Grzimek's translation, ibid. 4, 2006