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Manuel Mujica Linez

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Manuel Mujica Linez[1] (11 September 1910, Buenos Aires, Argentina- 21 April 1984, Cruz Chica, La Cumbre, Crdoba, Argentina) was an Argentine novelist, essayist and art critic.

Contents
1 Biography 2 Work 3 Bibliography 3.1 Librettist 4 References 4.1 Notes 4.2 Bibliography

Biography
Manuel Mujica Linez

His parents belonged to old and aristocratic families, being descended from the founder of the city, Juan de Garay, as well as from notable men of letters of 19th century Argentina, such as Florencio Varela and Miguel Can. As was traditional at the time, the family spent protracted periods in Paris and London so that Manuel, known proverbially and famously as Manucho, could become procient in French and English. He completed his formal education at the Colegio Nacional de San Isidro, later dropping out of Law School. In spite of their proud ancestry, the Mujica-Lanez family was not notably well-off by this time, and Manucho went to work at The Paradise, his villa in Crdoba Buenos Aires' newspaper La Nacin as literary and art critic. This permitted him to marry in 1936, his bride being a beautiful patrician girl, Ana de Alvear, descended from Carlos Mara de Alvear. They had two sons (Diego and Manuel) and a daughter (Ana). 1936 was also the year of the 25-year-old's rst publication, Glosas castellanas. Mujica Lainez was a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters and the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1982 he received the French's Legion of Honor. He died at his Villa "El Paraso" (The Paradise) in Cruz Chica, Crdoba Province, in 1984.

Work

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Mujica Linez was preeminently a narrator and enumerator of Buenos Aires, from its earliest colonial times to the present. The society of Buenos Aires, especially high society, its past triumphs and present decadence, its quirks and geographies, its language and lies, its sexual vanities and dreams of love: he relished bringing all this to his elegantly written, quietly ironic, subtly subversive page. He was also a great translator. He translated Shakespeare's Sonnets and works by Racine, Molire, Marivaux, and others.

Bibliography
Glosas Castellanas (1936) Don Galaz de Buenos Aires (1938) Miguel Can (padre) (1942) Canto a Buenos Aires (1943) Vida de Aniceto el gallo (1943) Estampas de Buenos Aires (1946) Vida de Anastasio el pollo (1947) Aqu vivieron (1949) Misteriosa Buenos Aires (1950) Los dolos (1952) La casa (1954) Los viajeros (1955) Invitados en "El Paraso" (1957) Bomarzo (1962) Cincuenta sonetos de Shakespeare (1962) El unicornio (1965) Crnicas reales (1967) De milagros y de melancolas (1969) Cecil y otros cuentos (1972) El laberinto (1974) El viaje de los siete demonios (1974) Sergio (1976) Los cisnes (1977) El gran teatro (1980) El brazalete (1981) El escarabajo (1982) Cuentos inditos (1993)

His study at El Paraso

Librettist
Mujica Linez adapted his novel Bomarzo for the operatic stage, writing the libretto set to music by Alberto Ginastera and premired in 1967. This opera was banned by the Argentine military dictatorship in those days.

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Notes
1. ^ In fact, the writer himself spelled his surnames without accents, as all his books published during his lifetime show.

Bibliography
Carsuzn, Mara Emma. Manuel Mujica Lanez. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, Biblioteca del Sesquicentenario, Serie "Argentinos en las Letras", Ministerio de Cultura y Educacin, 1962. Cruz, Jorge. Genio y gura de Manuel Mujica Lanez. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Eudeba, 1978. Font, Eduardo. Realidad y fantasa en la narrativa de Manuel Mujica Lanez (1949-1962). Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Jos Porra Turanzas, 1976. I: "Mujica Lanez y su obra literaria" II: "Aqu vivieron y Misteriosa Buenos Aires: Estructura y gnero" III: "Estructura, tiempo e imaginacin en Los dolos" IV: "La estructura de La Casa" V: Bomarzo: El gnero literario y el narrador" VI: "Bomarzo: La narrativa y la temtica") Yahni, Roberto and Pedro Orgambide (eds.) Enciclopedia de la literatura argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Sudamericana, 1970. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manuel_Mujica_Linez&oldid=600124398" Categories: 1910 births 1984 deaths People from Buenos Aires Argentine essayists Argentine writers Argentine translators Argentine novelists Argentine short story writers Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres This page was last modied on 18 March 2014 at 07:33. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.

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