Biography

In 1958 Cristián Huneeus began collaborating with articles in the Pomaire magazine. Their journalistic deliveries appeared in different national journals, but mainly in the magazines Cormorán and Mensaje, where he published articles until 1983. Later, from 1977 to 1985, he evolved columnist in “Hoy” and “Cal”. Also, he was contributor in newspapers El Mercurio

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, La Nación

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, the Tercera

La Tercera

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y La Razón (Petorca). In this last newspaper he worked since he fixed his residence in the Valley of the Ligua in 1980. After the death of Cristián Huneeus in 1985, her daughter Daniela Huneeus (anthropologist) altogether with Manuel Vicuña (investigator of the Centro Barros Arana) published a book of articles of press written hy Huneeus between 1969 and 1985.

The political context of 60’ and 70’ demanded him to solve the crossroads with conviction and militancy. Before this, Huneeus ended up incarnating the neutrality and the uprooting, taking refuge between four walls: the field (that accompanied it from its childhood, he found in Cabildo Property Santo Tomás, and until the death); the literature ("the dilemma of the contemporary art is the dilemma of the point of view"); the academy (director of Humanistic Department of the University of Chile-DEH) and England (where he lived six years preparing his posgraduate in the Corpus Christi College on Cambridge and knew Tony Gould), at its moment of splendor; Nicanor Parra would say to him in one of its artefactos: "this boy is a palace in the middle of a callampa (poor quarter)"). Until today, it seemed of the destiny that Huneeus never could leave those four walls.

Works

•Huneeus, C. 1958 “La milagrosa cáscara de plátano”, Pomaire, (10): 12-13,

•1958. “Un óleo hablado de Nemesio Antúnez”, Pomaire, (13): 8-9, junio-julio,

•1960. Cuentos de cámara. Santiago: Del Nuevo Extremo. 180 pp.

•1962 Las dos caras de Jano. Santiago: Editorial Del Pacífico. 121 pp.

•1967. “Guía Inglesa I”, La Nación,

•1967. “Guía Inglesa III: Multitud en la Estación”, La Nación, 13 de agosto

•1967. “La Guía Inglesa de Cristián Huneeus: IV. El tren”, La Nación,

•1967. “Guía Inglesa V: Poca música”, La Nación, 27 de agosto,

•1967. “La Guía Inglesa de Cristián Huneeus: VI: Abluciones”, La Nación, 8 de octubre

•1967.“La Guía Inglesa de Cristián Huneeus: VII: Old Ladies”, La Nación, 15 de octubre,

•1967.“La Guía Inglesa de Cristián Huneeus: VIII: Dios”, La Nación, 22 de octubre,

•1967. “La Guía Inglesa de Cristián Huneeus: IX: Humph y Mop”, La Nación, 19 de noviembre

•1968. La casa en Algarrobo. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 111 p.

•1969. “Las parábolas de William Golding”, Cormorán, (4): 11 y 13, diciembre.

•1975. “El rincón de los niños. Huneeus”, Manuscritos, (1): 58-69, 3 de octubre

•1979. “Sobre la publicación de fragmentos”, Cal (3): 18-19, 1979

•1980. El rincón de los niños. Santiago: Nascimento, 209 p.

•1980. “Enrique Lihn y un malentendido”, Hoy, (152): 46, 18 de junio,

•1980. “Opiniones”, Hoy, (159): 50, 6 de agosto, 1980

•1983. “Neruda”, La Razón (Petorca), 1de octubre, p. 2

•1984. “La inteligencia de la discreción”, Hoy, (351): 40, 11 de abril,

•1984. “Una novela de campo”, La Razón (La Ligua), 8 de julio, p. 2

•1984. "La Tirana", Hoy, (373): 59, 10 de septiembre,

•1984. “¿Culpa de Blest Gana?”, Hoy, (377): 49, 8 de octubre,

•1984. “Lihn y su libro”, Hoy, (382): 54, 12 de noviembre,

•1984. “La amistad de Nicanor”, Hoy, (384): 48, 26 de noviembre,

•1984. “Pertinencia del impertinente”, Hoy, (386): 44, 10 de diciembre,

•2001. Huneuus D. Vicuña M. (Comp.). Artículos de prensa (1969-1985); prologue by Roberto Merino. Santiago de Chile: DIBAM: LOM Ediciones. 149 pp. ISBN 956-244-127-X

External links

Gould, Tony. 2005. “Un Amigo en Chile”. Epicentro Aguilar. ISBN 956-239-364-X (Span.)http://www.tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5714_146528076,00.html