Marco Denevi

Marco Denevi 1980

Marco Denevi (born May 12, 1922 in Sáenz Peña , Gran Buenos Aires , † December 12, 1998 ) was an Argentine journalist , lawyer and writer .

Denevi came from a humble background; his father was an Italian immigrant, his mother Argentinean. He studied law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and was able to successfully complete this degree.

Denevi was able to debut very successfully in 1955 with his novel "Rosaura à la diez". In a notable essay "Républica de Trapalanda" he showed himself to be a partisan Domingo Faustino Sarmiento . After his short story Ceremonia secreta , Joseph Losey directed the film The Woman from Nowhere in 1968 (with Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow ).

Honors

• 1955 Prémio Kraft for Rosaura à las diez

Works (selection)

stories

• Falsificaciones . 1966.
• Hierba del cielo . 1991.
• El jardin de las delicias . 1992.
• Salón de lectura . 1974.

Novels

• Los asesinos de los días de fiesta . 1972.
• Una familia argentina . 1997.
• Un pequeño café . 1966.
• Rosaura came at ten. Roman ("Rosaura à las diez"). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1980, ISBN 3-596-22613-9 .

Plays

• Los expedientes . 1957.
• Fatalidad de los amantes . 1974.
• Los locos y los cuerdos . 1975.
• Los perezosos . 1970.

literature

• Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , pp. 54-55.
• Thomas Ward: Marco Denevi y su propuesta en contra del Poder . In: Ders .: La resistencia cultural. La nacíon en el ensayo de la America . University Press, Lima 2004, ISBN 997-288-578-X , pp. 99-108.