Javier Tomeo

Javier Tomeo ( born September 9, 1932 in Quicena, Huesca province, † June 22, 2013 in Barcelona) was a Spanish writer. He is one of the most translated contemporary writers of his country.

Career

Tomeo completed a course of study in law and criminology at the University of Barcelona and wrote since the 1950s, first popular fiction (including westerns and horror stories ) under various pseudonyms. In 1962 he published as " Frantz Keller" a history of slavery ( Historia de la esclavitud ), 1963 he was with Juan María Estadella a work on witchcraft and superstition in Catalonia (La Brujería y la superstición en Cataluña ) out. His first novel The Hunter (El cazador ) appeared in 1967. Since the 1970s it has been translated into other languages ​​, and some of his works were placed on the stage ( as in 1989 at the Théâtre National de la Colline Monstre Aimé, 1993 in Cologne Schauspielhaus The Marquis writes an outrageous letter ). Tomeo also wrote articles for periodicals such as the newspaper ABC. His biggest success was the novel The Lion Hunter ( El cazador de leones ), 1989. In German language most recently in 2010, his novel was published in The silicone lovers in Berliner Verlag Klaus Wagenbach.

Tomeo won the 1971 Literature Prize premio de novela corta Ciudad de Barbastro for The Unicorn (El unicornio ), 1994 he was awarded the Premio a las letras Aragón and the Gold Medal of the city of Zaragoza. Education and Minister of Culture of the Regional Government of the Autonomous Community of Aragon called Tomeo one of the " most illustrious representative " of Spanish literature, the President of the Writers' Union of Aragón, José Luis Corral, a " reference point of surrealist literature."

Works

Due to the surrealist and experimental contents of its approximately thirty works Tomeo was a spiritual closeness to the painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) and filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), both also Spaniards attributed. In addition, he was with his sober and minimalist style of writing, the constantly repeated motifs in short sentences and increases, with the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) compared. One focus of his work is on fable -like short stories.

  • El castillo de la carta cifrada (1979 ), dt The Marquis wrote an unprecedented letter (1984, trans. Elke weir)
  • Amado monstruo (1984 ), German mothers and sons. Novel about Monster (1986, trans. Elke weir)
  • El cazador de leones (1989 ), dt The Lion Hunters (1988, trans. Elke weir)
  • Historias mínimas (1988 ), German Man from the inside, and other disasters. In four departments (1989, trans. Elke weir)
  • La ciudad de las palomas (1990 ), dt Pigeons (1991 )
  • El discutido testamento de Gastón de Puyparlier (1990 ), dt The controversial Testament of Gaston de Puyparlier (1992 )
  • Zoopatías y zoofilias (1993 ), dt Zoopathologie (1994 )
  • Diálogo en re mayor (1991 ), German entertainment in D major (1995 )
  • El crimen del cine Oriente (1995 ), dt The crime in the Orient Cinema ( 2010)
  • Hotel of the Lost Steps (2010)
  • Los amantes de silicona (2008), dt The Silicone Lovers (2010, above. Heinrich von Berenberg )
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