(Português) Borges, Jorge Luis

Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1889 - Geneva (Switzerland), 1986 By Flávio Aguiar One of the foundational pillars of 20th-century Latin American literature, he ensured both the renewal and the re-engagement with Western cultural roots for the continent. He created the Martín Fierro group, a mouthpiece for the literary avant-garde in Argentina…

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(Português) Bioy Casares, Adolfo

Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1914 - 1999 By Flávio Aguiar Author of novels, short stories, and screenplays, he was the writer who had the closest relationship with Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he co-authored several volumes of detective stories featuring the character Isidro Parodi, published under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq…

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(Português) Benedetti, Mario

Tacuarembó, 1920 - Montevideo (Uruguay), 2009 By Flávio Aguiar In 1956, he sparked controversy with Poemas de la oficina for contrasting the academic lyricism of his contemporaries, and in 1959, with the short stories collected in Montevideanos, for presenting a conception of urban prose. Paradigmatic, these volumes announce, as the…

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