Juan Filloy
ARGENTINA, 1894-2000
Juan Filloy was son of illiterates but from very early in life he was accompanied by literature. He mastered seven languages, one of which was Greek, and was perhaps the most notable Hellenist of his day in Argentina. An excellent swimmer, dedicated boxing referee and talented caricaturist, he practised as a judge in the small town of Río Cuarto 200 kilometres from Córdoba, where he spent nearly the whole of his life. Of biblical longevity, he died at the age of 106. He cultivated the novel, poetry, essay, short story, theatre and other genres of his own devising. A world champion palindromist, he made use of the entire dictionary in his books, coined new words and used only seven letters in all the titles of his works. He was a pioneer and the importance of his work has not gone unnoticed in the most watchful circles. His writing displays wisdom, courage, imagination, irony, a critical sense and an ethical mind. As such it has been a decisive influence on authors such as Julio Cortázar, who mentions Filloy in Rayuela, or Alfonso Reyes, who considered him a founding father. He received various distinctions during his lifetime and was nominated for the Nobel Prize.
«There is a capacity for inventiveness, a daring in the face of traditional narrative forms and such a joyful handling of language, that detach Juan Filloy's work from the historical context of the novels of his time.»
Adolfo Prieto
«Juan Filloy, progenitor of a new Latin American literature.»
Alfonso Reyes
«Filloy's production [...] is placed, for its quality, between the works of Roberto Arlt, the theater of Armand or Discépolo and the poetry of Oliverio Girondo.»
David Viña
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By Juan Filloy
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NOVEL, 1992
La purga is one of Juan Filloy's most original and amusing novels, and at the same time one of his most secret works. Written in 1977, a year after the military coup, the plot centers on an...
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SHORT STORIES, 1991
In the manner of Gentuza , it brings together two nouvelles and a series of short stories starring women from different social classes -what the author called "female swell". In many of them, he...
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NOVEL, 1975
The anti-militarist novel by the great author from Córdoba, kidnapped by the dictatorship at the time of its publication. Ironic and implacable, this work is a hilarious dissection of the...
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SHORT STORIES, 1972
Los Ochoa is the first volume of short stories published by Filloy. There are seven long stories with which the native saga of Los Ochoa begins. They highlight the knowledge of rural life, the...
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NOVEL, 1937
Caterva tells of seven erudite, homeless, and semi-incompetent radicals attempting to foment a revolution: conspiring with striking workers, setting off bombs, evading the local authorities, and...
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NOVEL, 1935
"Aquende is in my opinion one of the most original books of Argentine literature, and its resonances are found, decades later, in Latin American writers as varied as Asturias or Cortázar,...
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NOVEL, 1934
Buenos Aires, 1930s. The Finnish statistician Op Oloop leads a methodical, disciplined life, though he spends his time in expensive restaurants and Turkish baths, with a circle of weird friends....
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NOVEL, 1931
-¡Estafen! is a work with a judicial and prison theme, and at the same time a typical character novel. A swindler is caught. The arrest, the taking of statements and his dialogues with the...
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TRAVEL CHRONICLES, 1931
Periplo is a chronicle of Filloy's 1930 journey through the Mediterranean basin, visiting Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jerusalem. The title derives from Ptolemy, who...
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