Marcos Aguinis

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Marcos Aguinis (born January 15, 1935 in Cordoba , Argentina ) is an Argentine neurosurgeon and writer .

Marcos Aguinis (2018)

Life

Aguinis' father immigrated from Bessarabia to Buenos Aires in 1928 and immediately moved to relatives who lived in Cruz del Eje in the province of Córdoba . As a schoolchild, Marcos Aguinis suffered from discrimination from classmates and individual teachers because of his Jewish origins . During the persecution of the Jews in Germany, all of his family members who remained in Europe were killed. After his bar mitzvah , he began to deal intensively with literature and religion. He borrowed books on the Bible and Israel from the public library. Among other things, he read Stefan Zweig , the “History of the Religion of Israel” by Julio Nin y Silva , Emil Ludwig's book “Der Menschensohn”, “Muhammad and the Koran” by the Spaniard Rafael Cansinos Assens and “Das Leben Jesu” by Ernest Renan . Reading Renan's book was the beginning of his religious doubts. Today Aguini is an agnostic .

He began writing stories while still at school. After finishing school, he first studied psychiatry , neurology and psychoanalysis . At the age of twenty-three he received a scholarship to study neurosurgery in Buenos Aires . He continued his medical and psychiatric studies at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in France and in Freiburg i. Br. And Cologne with the help of a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . After his return from Europe, he did his doctorate at the University of Córdoba and initially worked as a neurosurgeon at the Southern Regional Clinic. During this time he published his first stories.

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Aguinis published his first book in 1963. Since then he has published numerous novels, essay volumes , collections of short stories and two biographies. His articles in newspapers and magazines in Latin America, the United States and Europe cover a wide range of different topics. He gave numerous lectures and offered courses in Germany , Spain , the USA , France , Israel , Russia , Italy and in almost all Latin American countries.

During the dictatorship in Argentina, the circulation of Aguinis' works was restricted. Some of his works could only appear abroad and be brought into the country illegally.

When Argentina returned to democracy in December 1983, Aguinis was appointed Secretary of State and then Secretary of Culture for the country. He organized PRONDEC, a national program for the democratization of culture that was supported by UNESCO and the UN . He started intensive activities to sensitize the population to their rights, duties and possibilities to develop a real democracy. For his work he was nominated by UNESCO for the Peace Education Prize.

Prizes and awards

  • Premio Planeta (Spain) for La cruz invertida (1970)
  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France
  • Distinguished Writer, American University Washington DC, United States of America
  • Annual Silver Plaque EFE Agency for contributing to strengthening Latin American culture and language, Spain
  • Fernando Jenö Award, Mexico
  • Argentine Writers' Society, Grand Prize of Honor, Argentina
  • Honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University (2002), Israel
  • Honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002), Israel

Works (selection)

Biographies
  • Maimonides (1963)
  • El Combate Perpetuo (1971)
Short stories
  • Operativo Siesta (1977)
  • Y la rama llena de frutos (1986)
  • Importancia por contacto (1986)
  • Todos los cuentos (1995)
Novels
  • Refugiados: Crónica de un palestino (1969)
  • La cruz invertida (1970)
  • Cantata de los diablos (1972)
  • La conspiración de los idiotas (1978)
  • Profanación del amor (1978)
  • La Gesta del Marrano (1991)
  • La Matriz del Infierno (1997)
  • Los Iluminados (2000)
  • Asalto al Paraíso (2002)
  • La Pasión según Carmela (2008)
  • Liova Corre hacia el Poder (2011)
  • La Furia de Evita (2013)
  • Sabra, Solo Contra un Imperio (2014)
  • La Novela de mi Vida (2016)
Essays
  • Carta Esperanzada a un General (1983)
  • El Valor de Escribir (1985)
  • Un país de Novela (1988)
  • Memorias de una Siembra (1990)
  • Elogio de la culpa (1993)
  • Nueva Carta Esperanzada a un General (1996)
  • Diálogos sobre la Argentina y el fin del Milenio (1996)
  • Nuevos Diálogos (1998)
  • El Atroz Encanto de Ser Argentinos (2001)
  • El Cochero (2001)
  • Las Dudas y las Certezas (2001)
  • Las Redes del Odio (2003)
  • ¿Qué Hacer? (2005)
  • El Atroz Encanto de Ser Argentinos 2 (2007)
  • Pobre Patria Mía! (2009)
  • El Elogio del Placer (2010)
  • Incendio de Ideas (2017)

literature

  • Juana A. Arancibia (Ed.): La gesta literaria de Marcos Aguinis. Ensayos críticos. Instituto Literario, San José 1998, ISBN 9968-9846-3-9 (Colleción Estudios hispánicos; 4).
  • Myriam E. Gover de Nasatsky: “La matriz del infierno” de Marcos Aguinis. Metafísica del mal; modelo para "desarmar". In: Letras de Buenos Aires , Vol. 19 (1999), No. 43, pp. 44-50.
  • Patricion Lóizaga: LA contradicción argentina. Conversaciones by Marcos Aguinis, Hebe Clementi , Marco Denevi , José Luis de Imaz , Fermín Févre , Victor Massuh y Juan José Sebreli . Emecé, Buenos Aires 1995, ISBN 950-04-1518-6 .
  • M. Paley Francescato: Entrevista con Marcos Aguinis. In: Revista de estudios hispánicos , Vol. 19 (1985), Issue 1, pp. 117-139.
  • Ignacio López-Calvo: Religión y militarismo en le obra de Marcos Aguinis. 1963-2000. Mellen Publ., Lewiston. NY 2002, ISBN 0-7734-7292-4 (Latin American Studies; 17).
  • Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / m 1994, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , p. 5.

media

  • Darío Brenman: Marcos Aguinis. Perfiles, transparencias y miradas. Blankman, Buenos Aires 2000 (1 videocass., VHS, 55 min.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (PDF, Spanish; 3.6 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Aguinis, Marcos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine neurosurgeon and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba , Argentina