Samuel Eichelbaum

Samuel Eichelbaum

Samuel Eichelbaum (born November 14, 1894 in Villa Domínguez , Entre Ríos province , † May 4, 1967 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer.

Eichelbaum came from a family of Russian Jews who, with the help of Baron Maurice de Hirsch and his Jewish Colonization Association, were able to immigrate to Argentina in 1889. The family settled in Buenos Aires around 1910. Eichelbaum began working there as a freelancer for the newspaper "La Vanguardia" in his youth.

Honors

• 1957 Premio Nacional

Works (selection)

prose

• Un monstruo en libertad. Relatos . 1925.
• Tormento de Dios. Novela . 1929.
• El viajero. Novela . 1933.

Plays

• Las aguas del mundo . 1957.
• Dos brasas . 1955.
• Un cuervo sobre el imperio . 1966.
• Gabriel el olvidado .
• Un guapo del 900 . 1940.
• Nadie la conoció nunca . 1945.
• Pájaro de barro . 1940.
• Rostro perdido . 1952.
• Subsuelo . 1966.
• Un tal servando Gómez . 1942.
• Vegüenza de querer . 1941.

Filmography

• 1939: Una mujer de la calle
• 1946: Las tres ratas
• 1950: Arrabalera (film adaptation of his play "Un tal servando Gómez")
• 1951: El pendiente
• 1957: Dios no lo quiera (film adaptation of his play "Un tal servando Gómez")
• 1960: The best man (Un guapo del 900)

literature

• Dieter Reichardt: Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-38828-2 , pp. 42-43
• Perla Zayas de Lima: Diccionario de autores teatrales argentinos. 1950-1990 . Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires 1991, ISBN 950-556-275-6 , pp. 104-106

Web links

• Samuel acorn tree in the Internet Movie Database (English)