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Occupation
  
Writer

Education
  
El Colegio de Mexico

Role
  
Writer


Name
  
Salvador Elizondo

Nationality
  
Mexican

Movies
  
Back to the Door

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Born
  
December 19, 1932 Mexico City, Mexico (
1932-12-19
)

Died
  
March 29, 2006, Mexico City, Mexico

Books
  
Farabeuf Or, The Chronicle of an Instant

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Latin America & Caribbean

Similar People
  
Daniel Sada, Alberto Blanco, Alfredo Lopez Austin

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Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (Mexico City, December 19, 1932 - March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature.

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Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style literature in Latin America, he wrote as a novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and journalist. His most famous novels are Farabeuf (1965) and El hipogeo Secreto (1968). He is also known for El grafógrafo (1972) which is a series of short texts based on linguistic abbreviatory experimentation. Farabeuf (tr. John Incledon) was published in English by Ox & Pigeon in 2015.

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His style is considered innovative among Mexican contemporary literature for introducing a cosmopolitan view of language and narrative, bringing elements from external literary currents and languages to a refined dialogue of thought and communication. His technique is considered rather unrealistic and proto-fictional, as opposed to magical realism. His works are associated with writers such as Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo and Georges Bataille. He was also a Professor at UNAM for 25 years (mentor of writers such as Pablo Soler Frost) and received many international grants, such as the Guggenheim and Rockefeller, and was the recipient of the 1990 national prize of literature. Elizondo died in Mexico City on March 29, 2006, of cancer. His funeral was held at the palacio de Bellas Artes.

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Works

  • Poemas, 1960
  • Luchino Visconti (críticism), 1963
  • Farabeuf o la crónica de un instante (novela), 1965
  • Narda o el verano, 1966
  • Autobiografía, 1966
  • El hipogeo secreto (novela) 1968
  • Cuaderno de escritura (críticism), 1969
  • El retrato de Zoe, 1969
  • El grafógrafo, 1972
  • Contextos (critical articles), 1973
  • Museo poético (anthology of modern Mexican poetry), 1974
  • Antología personal, 1974
  • Miscast (A comedy in three Acts), 1981
  • Camera lucida, México, 1983
  • La luz que regresa, 1984
  • Elsinore: un cuaderno, 1988
  • Estanquillo (textos), 1992
  • Teoría del infierno, 1993
  • Pasado Anterior 2007
  • Selected filmography

  • The Hypnotist (1940)
  • Tender Pumpkins (1949)
  • Philip of Jesus (1949)
  • Seven Women (1953)
  • The Three Elenas (1954)
  • Back to the Door (1959)
  • My Mother Is Guilty (1960)
  • Awards

  • Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1965)
  • References

    Salvador Elizondo Wikipedia