Manuel Scorza

Manuel Scorza ( born September 7, 1928 in Lima, † November 27, 1983 in Madrid) was a Peruvian writer.

After attending the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, he studied from 1945 at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. He then devoted himself to political activism; he participated in about guerrilla fighting in Chile, where he was arrested in 1949 and deported. In the same year he joined a resistance group against the military dictatorship of Manuel Odria.

In 1955 he published his first volume of poetry Las Imprecaciones. Others followed, before he in 1970 with drum roll for Rancas presented his first novel. Like its four subsequent novels, with which it comprises a cycle, this was written in France in political exile and deals with the life of indigenous peoples. From 1977 he was in Paris, a professor of Latin American literature.

In 1983, he died in a plane crash at Madrid -Barajas airport killed. In this accident, the authors Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Marta Traba and Ángel Rama died.

Works

• Las Imprecaciones ( poetry ), 1955
• Los adioses, 1959
• Desengaños del mago, 1961
• Amorosa Poesía ( Poetry ), 1963
• Redoble por Rancas (novel ), 1970, German drum roll for Rancas, 1975
• El vals de los reptiles, 1970
• Poesía incompleta, 1970
• Historia de el Garabombo Invisible, o, Garabombo, el invisible (novel ), 1972, German Garabombo, the Invisible, 1977
• El jinete Insomne ​​(novel ), 1977, dt The sleepless Reiter, 1981
• Cantar de Agapito Robles (novel ), 1977, German Song of Agapito Robles, 1984
• La Tumba del Relámpago (novel ), 1979
• La danza inmóvil (novel ), 1983