2023-05-18 03:01:00
The Argentine editor, narrator, essayist and critic Luis Chitarroniauthor of novels the paleface (1997) y Adventures of the no: diary of an unfinished novel (2007) and the storybook the polytheistic night (2019), passed away this Wednesday at the age of 64, as confirmed by the Filba Foundation. had been operated yesterday and he was in a coma: an infection ended his life.
“Goodbye, dear Chitarroni, we bid you farewell with great affection. Thank you for being part of Philba 2011 with your inaugural speech and jury of the first edition of the Medifé Filba Foundation Novel Prize. Goodbye!”, The institution fired him with a message on Twitter upon hearing the news of his death.
Chitarroni’s trajectory
Born in 1958, Chitarroni was a noted publisher. I work at Editorial Sudamericana, by the hand of Enrique Pezzoni, with authors such as Luis Gusmán, Ricardo Piglia, Daniel Guebel and CE Feiling (one of his great friends). Later, he was responsible for the catalog of La Bestia Equilatera, one of the most important independent labels in recent years.
It began to gain recognition at the end of the 80s, when collaborated with the magazine Babel. There she published a series of articles on writers, real and fictional, which were brought together in a book that appeared in 1992: Silhouette. Reprinted over the years, it was his first published book and his first essay. they would arrive later thousand cups of teain 2008; Brief Argentine history of Latin American literature (from Borges), in 2019; and Day following tomorrowwhich appeared in 2020.
He also published anthologies: The writers of the writers (1997), The death of philosophers at the hands of writers (2009) y the lost letter (2022). In 2021 he had joined the Argentine Academy of Letters.
The author’s health had declined in the last decade from an accident. In fact, that prevented him from being at the Academy meetings.
his influences
Scholarly reader, respected and loved in the literary world, recognized Jorge Luis Borges as one of his influences. “In everything I write, Borges appears ad nauseam, or satiety, as he writes. I never believed in the influence with the punitive sense of Harold Bloom, not even the coercive one of other contemporary critics, of Bloom, of course. Things What others thought returns, as Emerson says, in an essay that Borges translated or signed, ‘with a certain alienated majesty,'” he said in an interview in 2022.
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