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Literature History From 1960 To 1990


A new generation break up takes place in the 1960s. Influences are varied: Sartre, Camus, Eluard; some Spaniards like Celaya; and native writers such as Borges, Arlt, Cortázar and Marechal. Two trends stand out: the trace of metaphysical time and historicity: Horacio Salas, Alejandra Pizarnik and Ramón Plaza and social and urban convulsions: Abelardo Castillo, Marta Lynch and Manuel Puig.

The 1970s are dark for intellectual creation. The sign of the times is exile: Juan Gelman and Antonio Di Benedetto or death: Roberto Santoro and Haroldo Conti. Some poets: Agustín Tavitián and Antonio Aliberti, story tellers: Osvaldo Soriano, Fernando Sorrentino and essayists: Ricardo Herrera and María Rosa Lojo stand out among the vicissitudes and renew the field of ethic and aesthetic ideas. Again, their references are Eluard, Eliot, Montale and Neruda.




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