The Argentine writer David Vinas, a natural rebel whose generation was determined to break down the myths of history and literature of his country, including the great Jorge Luis Borges, died in hospital on 83, following pneumonia.
A Viñas is remembered for stories of strong commitment social and 'The owners of the land', 'Nowhere to hide' and 'One God everyday', but also plays as 'Lisa', and a rich production essays.
"Apart from its literary, was a critic, a literary historian, brilliant, where ideology and political elements were essential," he told AFP Daniel Divinsky editor, founder and director of Ediciones de la Flor.
The Argentine writer David Viñas, author of the novels' The owners of the land ", among others, died Thursday night at 83, following pneumonia, said early Friday a sanatorium Buenos Aires private.
unruly, argumentative and visceral, recently reaffirmed their refusal to join pro-government groups of thinkers, arguing that "an intellectual can not be official."
Divinsky recalled that in an evening meeting at a restaurant named him to an anthology 'Buenos Aires, the foundation distress', with stories of Julio Cortázar and Leopoldo Marechal, among others.
"He would take care of one of the stories and wrote the only humorous tone production. A delusion is called 'socialist capital Buenos Aires in South America first,'" said Divinsky.
Vines was one of the creators of the journal Stroke, that in the 50 intellectuals met in Argentina Marxists and existentialists, but had to go into exile after the coup which installed a dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.
During the regime, their children Maria Adelaida and Lorenzo Ismael were kidnapped and are among the 30,000 detainees and disappeared, according to humanitarian agencies.
"is a tribute to my children," he replied dryly in 1991 when asked why he rejected the $ 25,000 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Critical oligarchic forms of violence, published in 1958 'The owners of the land', which tells a story set in the decade of the 20's, when in the southern Patagonia developed a worker-peasant long strike that ended in a bloody military crackdown.
professor of literature at the University and the author of essays, put in focus the work of "untouchable myths" as the first great Argentine writer Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a journalist, military and teacher who served as president between 1868 and 1874, or the famous Borges.
"Not so much as the production of Borges, but borgismo which is a kind of corporation that has been responsible for obliterating, freezing the whole situation of literary and cultural production," he said in an interview.
Federation President University Argentina in the 50's, twice won the National Book Award for 'Nowhere to hide' and 'Hounds', besides the Casa de las Americas Prize in 1967, with a jury that integrated Cortázar, the novel' Men on horseback. "
Iconoclast, or even saved their peers, saying that "as I said (the essayist Arturo) Jauretche, most Argentine intellectuals, the horse up and down left right."
generation of writers who took part Viñas was christened "parricide", for having pointed the guns against traditional figures.
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