Macedonio Fernández: A Museum of Possible Literatures
The Beyond Borges series continues with Macedonio Fernández, one half of the most pivotal friendship in Argentine writing and one of the most innovative and iconoclastic authors in Latin American...
View ArticleJorge Luis Borges: The Face of Argentine Literature
Having journeyed through 11 of Argentina's most influential authors, the Beyond Borges series arrives at its namesake: Argentina's most famous author and the face of national literature.
View ArticleOliverio Girondo: Advocating the Avant-Garde
Following on from Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series Oliverio Girondo, the most-loved poet of 20th century Argentina and advocate of the Spanish American avant-garde.
View ArticleReview: ‘Cuidado Con El Tigre’ by Luisa Valenzuela
Among Argentina's most prolific female authors is Luisa Valenzuela. Jess Cotton explores a recently republished edition of her 1960s novel 'Cuidado con el tigre'.
View ArticleAdolfo Bioy Casares: The Reinvention of Adventure
Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series with Adolfo Bioy Casares, a writer who revitalised the genre of adventure in Argentine literature.
View ArticleLeopoldo Marechal: A Tale of Relegation and Rediscovery
The Beyond Borges series continues with Leopoldo Marechal: a poet and novelist purposefully overlooked by his contemporaries but later acknowledged as one of Argentina's most important authors.
View ArticleErnesto Sabato: Literature’s Conscience
As we approach the first anniversary of his death, the Beyond Borges series arrives at Ernesto Sabato, an essayist and novelist who brought introduced existentialism to Argentine writing.
View ArticleAlejandra Pizarnik: The Darkest Legacy Left
The Beyond Borges series returns with Alejandra Pizarnik, the third female author to appear in the series and one of the most important and complex poets in Argentine writing.
View ArticleRodolfo Walsh: Defender of Free Journalism
Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series with Rodolfo Walsh: an Argentine writer famous for founding the genre of investigative journalism.
View ArticleTop 5 Argentine Literary Reviews
Cosmopolitan, urban and elitist on one hand, international and socialist on the other, Argentina's literary reviews provided an important forum for the big names in Argentine writing. Jess Cotton...
View ArticleBeyond Borges: Names to Know in Argentine Literature
Along with Buenos Aires’ nomination as UNESCO’s World Book Capital for 2011 came a symbolic acknowledgement of Argentina’s commitment to the countrywide promotion of literature and reading. Inside...
View ArticleEsteban Echeverría: The Bloody Beginnings of Romanticism
Kick-starting The Argentina Independent’s ‘Beyond Borges’ series is an author generally accepted as marking the beginning of Argentine literature, and arguably the first writer to play a significant...
View ArticleDomingo Faustino Sarmiento: Blurring the Line between Writing and Politics
Continuing our ‘Beyond Borges’ series is an author who if you don’t know for his contribution to Argentine literature, you may well know for being Argentina’s seventh president, the subject of one of...
View ArticleJosé Mármol: The Emergence of a National Novel
The third in our ‘Beyond Borges‘ series, the poet, playwright and novelist José Mármol follows hot on the heels of August’s Esteban Echeverría and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, completing a trio of...
View ArticleBartolomé Hidalgo: Godfather of the Gauchesque
One of the most important developments in Latin American literature during the 19th century was the emergence of gauchesque poetry – poetry written, not written by gauchos as the name suggests, but...
View ArticleEstanislao del Campo: Pushing the Gaucho to the Fore
When Bartolomé Hidalgo assumed the voice of the gaucho in early 19th century writing, he planted a seed that would later mature and thrive. Carried forward by poets such as Hilario Ascasubi, the...
View ArticleJosé Hernández: The Consolidation of a Genre
The Indy’s ‘Beyond Borges’ series has so far introduced five of Argentina’s influential authors. Among them, romantic prose writers Esteban Echeverría and José Mármol, controversial essayist Domingo...
View ArticleLeopoldo Lugones: Forward Thinking Science Fiction
Quiroga, Lugones and other contemporary writers As the highest profile author in Argentina, Lugones divided public opinion as much in life as in letters. Described as doctrinaire and precocious among...
View ArticleAlfonsina Storni: The Poetess that Broke from the Pack
Rarely left out of anthologies of Argentine writing or directories of modern female poets of South America, the next author in our Beyond Borges series is a writer who also finds herself among the...
View ArticleRicardo Güiraldes: The Creation of an Instant Classic
We continue The Indy’s Beyond Borges series with Ricardo Güiraldes, author of one of the two most important regional novels to have emerged from Latin America during the 20th century. In his epic ‘Don...
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