Haroldo Conti

Haroldo Conti ( born May 25, 1925 in Chacabuco, Buenos Aires Province; † 1976? ) Was an Argentine university teacher and writer.

Life

Conti came from a politically active family; his father Pedro Conti was a partisan of Juan Perón and his movement ( Peronism ) and his mother Petronila Lombardi was union activities. He studied philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and was able to successfully complete this study in 1954.

The following year, Conti married in his hometown Dora Campos and had with her three children; Alejanda (* 1956), Marcelo and Ernesto (* 1976).

1962 could Conti successful with his novel " Sudeste " debut. After a few years he was invited by the State Institute of Culture of Cuba to Havana, but could take this trip after the Cuban missile crisis. Between 1967 and 1976 he worked as a lecturer in Latin at the Liceo Nacional N ° 7 in Buenos Aires.

On 5 May 1976, the junta coup led by General Jorge Rafael Videla to power. Conti was among the first to be arrested in the process of national reorganization, and then let it disappear. On this day, the Día del Escritor Bonaerense in addition to all other writers also Haroldo Conti is thought.

Quote

Dieter Reichardt reported in his book " Latin American authors " on Haroldo Conti:

" The common denominator that can be brought to his works, is the determination of human existence through the environment, but the psychological scope of individual decisions is kept open. The ambivalence between determinism and freedom is the suggestive power of the same precision as - through constant change of perspective -. Fairly diffuse language "

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Con otra gente. In 1967.
  • Cuentos completos. Bertleby, Madrid 2008, ISBN 978-84-95408-75-4.
  • Todos los veranos. In 1965.
  • Alrededor de la jaule. Emece Editorial, Buenos Aires 1995, ISBN 950-04-1501-1.
  • Mascaro, the American hunter ( " Mascaro, el cazador americano "). Lamuv -Verlag, Bornheim -Merten, 1985, ISBN 3-88977-024- X.
  • Sudeste. New edition Emece Editorial, Buenos Aires 1995, ISBN 950-04-1464-3.
  • En vida. Emece Editorial, Buenos Aires 1996, ISBN 950-04-1571-2.

Films

  • Sergio Bellotti (Director): Sudeste. , 2003.
  • Santiago Palavecino (Director): Los perfumos de la noche. , 2002.
  • Sergio Renán (Director): Crecer de golpe (after " Alrededor de la jaule "). In 1977.
  • Nicolás Sarquis (Director): La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro. 1983 ( deals with Haroldo Conti and Luis Priamo ).
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