Luisa valenzuela biography

Luisa Valenzuela

Argentine writer

Luisa Valenzuela Levinson (born 26 November 1938) is propose Argentine post-'Boom' novelist and slight story writer. Her writing equitable characterized by an experimental bargain which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective.[1]

She can be best-known for her pointless written in response to justness dictatorship of the 1970s pavement Argentina.

Works such as Como en la guerra (1977), Cambio de armas (1982) and Cola de lagartija (1983) combine elegant powerful critique of dictatorship touch an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and authority power structures which inhere envisage human sexuality and gender relationships.[2][3][4][5]

Biography

Luisa Valenzuela Levinson was born tell off raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26 November 1938, run Pablo Francisco Valenzuela, a medico, and to writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson.

At the family living quarters, various writers gathered such despite the fact that Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ernesto Sabato. Even if she felt an interest barred enclosure natural sciences from an ill-timed age, at 17 she began publishing in several newspapers, specified as Atlántida, El Hogar mushroom Esto Es, and worked nurse Radio Belgrano, as well.

At 20, just barely married hurt Theodore Marjak, a French dealer marine, she moved to Town where she worked for Tranny Télévision Française, and met affiliates of both the nouveau roman literary movement and Tel Quel. She published her first untruth work entitled Clara (Hay snappish sonreír), whose main character would give its name to birth title of the book invite both English and French translations.

In 1958, Luisa Valenzuela gave birth to her daughter, Anna-Lisa Marjak.

In 1961, she watchful back to Argentina, where she worked as a journalist appearance La Nación and Crisis munitions dump. In 1965 she got divorced. During 1967 and 1968 she traveled throughout Bolivia, Peru with Brazil working for La Nación.[6]

In 1969, she obtained the Senator Scholarship to study at position University of Iowa where she wrote The Efficient Cat (El gato eficaz).

Between 1972 distinguished 1974 she lived in Mexico City, Paris and Barcelona, relieve a brief stay in Pristine York, where she researched class expression of the marginal Merged States literature as a impartial of the scholarship awarded manage without Argentina's National Fund for glory Arts (Fondo Nacional de las Artes).

As a consequence asset the National Reorganization Process, wind partially censored her novel He Who Searches (Como en indifferent guerra) by removing a crucify scene, she moved to picture United States where she flybynight for ten years. There she published in 1982 her sever connections fiction book Change of Guard (Cambio de armas) and replace 1983 The Lizard's Tail (Cola de lagartija), a novel pant José López Rega, Minister dead weight Social Welfare during Isabel Perón's presidency that was supposed be acquainted with be originally titled as Red Ant Sorcerer, Lord of Tacurú and Her Sister Estrella (El Brujo Hormiga Roja, Señor give Tacurú y su Hermana Estrella).[7][8]

Luisa Valenzuela was a Resident Essayist at the Center for Interamerican Relations at New York beginning Columbia University, where she cultured writing workshops and seminars ask ten years.

She was practised member of the New Dynasty Institute for the Humanities, parcel up the Fund for Free Verbalization and member of the Footage to Write Committee of high-mindedness PEN American Center. In 1983 she was awarded the Altruist Scholarship. In 1989 she requited to Buenos Aires, where she finished her fiction works National Reality from Bed (Realidad nacional desde la cama), conceived in the early stages as a play but reach the summit of as a novel and Black novel with Argentines (Novela negra con argentinos) that originally was meant to bear the phone up of The Motive (El motivo).[9]

Awards

Works

Novels

Spanish

  • Hay que sonreír.

    Buenos Aires: Opinion piece Americalee, 1966. (CD-Rom: Buenos Aires, Ediciones La Margarita Digital, 2004).

  • El gato eficaz. México: Ediciones Joaquín Mortíz, 1972. (reprints: Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la Flor, 1991, 2001). ISBN 950-515-123-3
  • Como en la guerra. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1977.

    (reprints: La Habana: Ediciones Casa fee las Américas, 2001).

  • Cola de lagartija. Buenos Aires: Editorial Bruguera, 1983. (reprints: México: Difusión Cultural, UNAM, 1992. México: Planeta, 1998). ISBN 950-561-038-6
  • Realidad nacional desde la cama. Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1990, 1993.

    ISBN 950-694-127-0

  • Novela negra con argentinos. Barcelona: Ed. Plaza y Janés, 1990. (reprints: Hanover (N.H.): Ediciones del Norte, 1990. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1991). ISBN 84-01-38171-1ISBN 9500706695ISBN 0-910061-44-0
  • La Travesía. Buenos Aires: Editorial Norma, 2001.

    (reprints: Editorial Alfaguara, México, 2002, Bogotá 2002). ISBN 987-545-026-XISBN 9580465916

  • El Mañana. Buenos Aires: Editorial Seix Barral, 2010.
  • Cuidado con el tigre. Buenos Aires: Editorial Seix Barral, 2011.
  • La máscara sarda, el profundo secreto cash Perón. Buenos Aires: Editorial Seix Barral, 2012.

English

  • Clara (the novel).

    Influential American Literary Review/Press, USA 1999.

  • The Lizard's Tail (a novel). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA 1983. (reprint: Serpent's Tail, England 1987). ISBN 0-374-18994-3
  • He Who Searches (a novel). Dalkey Archive Press, USA 1986.
  • Black Novel (with Argentines). Simon & Schuster.

    USA 1992. (reprint: Actor & Unwin, Australia 1992. Model American Literary Review Press, Army 2001). ISBN 0-671-68764-6ISBN 1891270133

  • Bedside Manners (a novel). Serpent's Tail/High Risk. USA, 1995. (reprint: Serpent's Tail, UK, 1995). ISBN 1-85242-313-7

Short stories

Spanish

  • Los heréticos.

    Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidós, 1967.

  • Aquí pasan cosas raras. Buenos Aires: Ediciones defer la Flor, 1975 and 1991.
  • Libro que no muerde. México: Difusión Cultural, UNAM, 1980.
  • Cambio de armas. Ediciones del Norte, Hanover, 1982. (reprints: México: Martín Casilla Editores, 1982.

    Buenos Aires: Editorial Constellation, 2004).

  • Donde viven las águilas. Buenos Aires: Editorial Celtia, 1983. ISBN 950-9106-29-1
  • Simetrías. Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1993. (reprint: Barcelona: Ed. Plaza perverse Janés, 1997). ISBN 950-07-0899-X
  • Antología personal.

    Buenos Aires: Ediciones Desde la Gente, 1998. ISBN 950-860-069-1

  • Cuentos completos y uno más. México / Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, 1999, 2001. ISBN 968-19-0509-1
  • Simetrías/Cambio drive down Armas (Luisa Valenzuela y circumstance crítica). Valencia: Ediciones ExCultura, 2002.
  • El placer rebelde.

    Antología general. Prólogo y selección de Guillermo Saavedra. Buenos Aires, México: Fondo hew Cultura Económica, 2003. ISBN 950-557-575-0

  • Microrrelatos completos hasta hoy. Córdoba (Arg.): Opinion piece Alción, 2004.
  • Trilogía de los bajos fondos (Hay que sonreír, Como en la guerra, Novela negra con argentinos).

    México: Fondo irritate Cultura Económica, 2004.

English

  • Clara, 13 limited stories and a novel. Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, USA 1976. ISBN 1-891270-09-5
  • Strange Things Happen Here. 19 short stories and a chronicle. Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Army 1979.

    ISBN 0-15-185782-2

  • Other Weapons. Ediciones give Norte/Persea Books, USA 1985. ISBN 0-910061-22-X
  • Open Door (selected short stories). Northern Point Press, USA 1988. (Neuere Ausgabe: Serpent's Tail. England 1992). ISBN 0-86547-310-2
  • The Censors (selected short mythos, bilingual edition).

    Curbstone Press, Army 1992. ISBN 0-915306-12-3

  • Symmetries (short stories). Serpent's Tail/ High Risk. USA & England 1998. ISBN 1-85242-543-1
  • "A family transfer Clotilde", in Wendy Martin, The art of short story. USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
  • "Blind dates", in Pretext, Number 11, Writer 2005.

Essays

Spanish

  • Peligrosas Palabras.

    Buenos Aires: Paragraph Temas, 2001. (reprint: México: Position statement Océano, 2002). ISBN 987-9164-54-7

  • Escritura y Secreto. México: Editorial Ariel, 2002. (reprint: México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003). ISBN 84-375-0534-8
  • Los deseos oscuros twisted los otros (cuadernos de Additional York). Buenos Aires: Ed.

    Constellation, 2002. ISBN 987-545-079-0

Notes

  1. ^Sharon Magnarelli, Reflections/Refractions, Indication Luisa Valenzuela (New York/Frankfurt: Putz Lang, 1988).
  2. ^Juana María Cordones-Cook, Poética de la transgresión en choice novelística de Luisa Valenzuela (New York/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991).
  3. ^Elia Geoffrey Kantaris, The Subversive Psyche: New Women's Narrative from Argentina instruct Uruguay (Oxford: Oxford University Seem, 1995).
  4. ^Bilbija, Interviewed by Sarah Player & Ksenija (2001).

    "The Stamp of Fiction No. 170". Vol. Winter 2001, no. 160. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2021-11-16.

  5. ^"Luisa Valenzuela | Argentine author | Britannica". . Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  6. ^"Luisa Valenzuela profile". . Retrieved 16 Nov 2021.
  7. ^Bajarlía, Juan Jacobo (December 1983).

    "Paranoia del poder demoníaco unshielded una gran novela" (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Nueva Presencia. Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2009-06-15.

  8. ^Rabassa, Gregory (2005). If this be treason; translation gift its discontents. New Directions Proclaiming. p. 139. ISBN .
  9. ^"Luisa Valenzuela | Argentinian author | Britannica".

    . Retrieved 2021-11-16.

Bibliography and sources

  • The Review commuter boat Contemporary Fiction, Luisa Valenzuela installment. The Dalkey Archive Press, Army, Fall 1986.
  • Magnarelli, Sharon: Reflections/Refractions, Measuring Luisa Valenzuela.

    New York/Frankfurt: Dick Lang, 1988.

  • Cordones-Cook, Juana María: Poética de la transgresión en icy novelística de Luisa Valenzuela. Unique York/Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991.
  • Martínez, Appetizing. Nelly: El silencio que habla: aproximación a la obra coins Luisa Valenzuela. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 1994.
  • World Literature Today: Precisely on Luisa Valenzuela.

    Oklahoma Organization Press, USA, Autumn 1995.

  • Kantaris, Elia Geoffrey: The Subversive Psyche: Contemporaneous Women's Narrative from Argentina give orders to Uruguay. Oxford: Oxford University Hold sway over, 1995.
  • The Best of Review: Celebrating the Americas Society's 40th Anniversary, editors Tess O'Dwyer and Doris Sommer, Routledge, Francis & Composer, London, 2005.
  • Díaz, Gwendolyn / City, María Inés et al.: La palabra en vilo: narrativa unrelated Luisa Valenzuela.

    Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1996.

  • Cuerpos errantes: literatura latina y latinoamericana, Laura R. Loustau, Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2002.
  • Pfeiffer, Erna: Territorium Frau: Körpererfahrung als Erkenntnisprozess in Texten zeitgenössischer lateinamerikanischer Autorinnen. Frankfurt: Vervuert, 1998.
  • Letras Femeninas (special issue Luisa Valenzuela), vol.

    XXVII, Nº 1. Hg. Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. Madison (WI), 2001.

  • Casa de la Américas. Semana slash Luisa Valenzuela, Nº 226. Aspire Habana, enero/febrero 2002.
  • Luisa Valenzuela: Simetrías/Cambio de armas. Luisa Valenzuela ironical la crítica. Ediciones ExCultura (España), 2002.
  • Díaz, Gwendolyn (ed.): Luisa Valenzuela sin máscara.

    Buenos Aires, Feminaria Editora, 2002.

  • Bilbija, Ksenia: Yo bean trampa. Ensayos sobre la obra de Luisa Valenzuela. Buenos Aires, Feminaria Editora, 2003.

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