Blas Matamoro
Encyclopedia
Blas Matamoro is an Argentine
writer, lawyer, journalist and translator.
, Argentina
. He studied law at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires
, obtaining his degree in 1966. He worked as an education professor and as a lawyer. He was lawyer of political prisoner
s from the Commission of Families of Political Detainees (Comisión de Familiares de Detenidos Políticos, COFADE). After the Argentine dictatorship banned by decree his book titled Olimpo for attacking the traditions of the national identity and Christian morality, Matamoro emigrated to Madrid
in 1976. He was editor of Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional) and collaborated in diverse media as literary and music critic.
Argentina
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writer, lawyer, journalist and translator.
Biography
Blas Matamoro was born on January 11, 1942 in Buenos AiresBuenos Aires
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, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. He studied law at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires is the largest university in Argentina and the largest university by enrollment in Latin America. Founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires, it consists of 13 faculties, 6 hospitals, 10 museums and is linked to 4 high schools: Colegio Nacional de Buenos...
, obtaining his degree in 1966. He worked as an education professor and as a lawyer. He was lawyer of political prisoner
Political prisoner
According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country’....
s from the Commission of Families of Political Detainees (Comisión de Familiares de Detenidos Políticos, COFADE). After the Argentine dictatorship banned by decree his book titled Olimpo for attacking the traditions of the national identity and Christian morality, Matamoro emigrated to Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
in 1976. He was editor of Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos of the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional) and collaborated in diverse media as literary and music critic.
Essay
- La ciudad del tango; tango histórico y sociedad (1969)
- Historia del tango (1971)
- Carlos Gardel (1971)
- Jorge Luis Borges o el juego trascendente (1971)
- La casa porteña (1972)
- El teatro Colón (1972)
- Oligarquía y literatura (1975)
- La Argentina del tango, Vol. I (1976)
- La Argentina hoy (1978)
- Contra Borges (1978)
- Saint Exupéry: el principito en los infiernos (1979)
- Saber y literatura: por una epistemología de la crítica literaria (1980)
- La Argentina exiliada (1985)
- Genio y figura de Victoria Ocampo (1986)
- Lope de Aguirre (1987)
- Por el camino de Proust (1988)
- América en la torre de Babel (1998)
- El ballet (1998)
- Jorge Edwards (1998)
- Schumann (2000)
- La etapa mexicana de Luis Cernuda, 1952-1963, with Agustín Sánchez Andrés (2002)
- Rubén Darío (2002)
- Puesto fronterizo. Estudios sobre la novela familiar del escritor (2003)
- Lógica de la dispersión o de un saber melancólico (2007)
Short story
- Hijos de ciego (1973)
- Olimpo (1976), including: Qué es un olímpico?, Olímpicos de ayer y de hoy, Pornografía y moral, La parte del diablo, Caballería tecnológica, Muerte transfiguración, Pesadillas de la razón, Los dioses del estadio, and Confutación/vindicación del mito.
- Viaje prohibido (1978)
- Nieblas (1982)
- Las tres carabelas (1984)
Others
- Diccionario privado de Jorge Luis Borges (1979)
- Historias del Peronismo (1973)
- Diccionario privado de Jacinto Benavente (1980)
- Diccionario privado de Oscar Wilde (1980)
- Lecturas americanas (1990)
- Lecturas españolas (1994)
External links
- Online sources
- Blas Matamoro o la aventura del conocimiento Ómnibus 13 (III), February, 2007.
- Roffé, Reina. Blas Matamoro y el ensayo, Centro Virtual Cervantes, 2004.
- Works online
- "Genio y figura de Victoria Ocampo", abanico, September, 2006.