Blas Matamoro

Blas Matamoro (Buenos Aires, Argentina; January 11, 1942) is an Argentine writer, lawyer, journalist and translator.

Biography

Blas Matamoro was born on January 11, 1942 in Buenos Aires, 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 prisoners from the Commission of Families of Political Detainees ("Comisión de Familiares de Detenidos Políticos", COFADE). [Scotti, María Angélica. "Historias del peronismo." Ediciones Corregidor, Buenos Aires: March, 1973, p. 34.] 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. [Sebreli, Juan José. [http://www.omni-bus.com/n13/sebrelli.html "Blas Matamoro"] , "Ómnibus" 13 (III), February, 2007.] 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.

Works

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)

hort 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)

References

External links

*Online sources
** [http://www.omni-bus.com/n13/index.html Blas Matamoro o la aventura del conocimiento] "Ómnibus" 13 (III), February, 2007.
** Roffé, Reina. " [http://cvc.cervantes.es/el_rinconete/anteriores/abril_04/19042004_02.htm Blas Matamoro y el ensayo] ", Centro Virtual Cervantes, 2004.
*Works online
** [http://www.abanico.edu.ar/2006/09/matamoro.htm "Genio y figura de Victoria Ocampo"] , "abanico", September, 2006.