Silvina Bullrich

Silvina Bullrich 1968

Silvina Bullrich , origin. Silvina Bullrich de Palenque , (born October 4, 1915 in Buenos Aires , † July 2, 1990 in Geneva , Switzerland ) was an Argentine writer.

life and career

Bullrich came from a wealthy family; her father was Rafael Augusto Bullrich, a physician with German ancestry, and her mother María Meyrelles was descended from Portuguese immigrants. One of her grandfathers worked as a diplomat in Paris . Together with her two sisters she was mostly tutored by private tutors .

Her first literary attempts date from her youth and were particularly encouraged by her father. For some time she also acted as its secretary. Its first publication was in the La Nación newspaper ; wrote for them almost until the end of their lives. With the publication of Vibraciones (1936), a poetry anthology, the official literary criticism also became aware of Bullrich. She became acquainted with Adolfo Bioy Casares, Héctor Pedro Bloomberg , Jorge Luis Borges ; with the latter a collaboration developed over time.

In December 1936, at the age of 21, Bullrich married the lawyer Arturo Palenque Carrera and had a son with him; Daniel (* 1937). Bullrich separated from her husband in 1945 and divorced in December 1946 after exactly ten years of marriage. The following year she contracted tuberculosis . During a stay at a spa, she made the acquaintance of Marcelo Dupont, whom she later married. Her second husband died of cancer in 1956. Bullrich developed lung cancer around 1970 and died at the age of almost 75 on July 2, 1990 in Geneva.

Works (selection)

as an author

• La bicicletta . 1986
• Los burgueses . 1964.
• George Sand . Biography .
• Mis memorias . 1980.
• Un momento muy largo . 1961.
• La redoma del primer ángel . 1943.
• La tercer version . 1944.
• Vibraciones . 1935

as translator

• Simone de Beauvoir : Memorias de una joven formal ("Memoirs of a daughter from a good family")
• Béatrix Beck : Léon Morin, sacerdote
• Guy des Cars : Les filles de joie
• Graham Greene : El tercer hombre ("The Third Man")
• Louis Jouvet

Honors

• 1944 - Prémio Municipal for "La redoma de primer ángel"

literature

• Nicolás Cócaro: Silvina Bullrich . Edic. Culturales Argentinas, Buenos Aires 1979.
• Erica Frouman-Smith: Silvina Bullrich . In: Diane MArting (Ed.): Spanish American women writers. A bio-bibliographical source book . Greenwood, Westport, Conn. 1990, ISBN 0-313-25194-0 .
• Marcía C. González López: Visión sociopolítica en la novelística del Silvina Bullrich . Dissertation, University of Madrid 2005 (1 CD-ROM).
• Cristina Mucci: La gran burguesa. Biografía de Silvina Bullrich . Grupa Norma, Buenos Aires 2003, ISBN 987-545-128-2 .
• Dieter Reichardt: Latin American authors. Literary dictionary and bibliography of German translations . Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-7711-0152-2 , p. 45.
• Anna C. Tavenner: Aspectos de conflicto y enajemiento de la mujer en las novelas de Silvina Bullrich, Beatrix Guido y Clarice Lispector . Dissertation, TU Lubbock, Tex. 1977.