Voices of the River Plate

Description:

This unique collection of interviews by Dr. Zlotchew features conversations with well-known authors like Jorge Luis Borges and 10 other writers of Argentina, Uruguay and Israel. Each interview includes a biographical summary, an introduction, a chronology of the author's life and works, and a detailed, probing conversation examining each writer's psyche, motivations for writing, literary heroes and villains, influences, backgrounds, author's favorite among his own works, and much more. Readers will find these fascinating conversations engaging, revealing and entertaining. With notes, index of each author, and photographs of most.

subjects: Argentine Authors,  Uruguayan Authors,  Argentine literature,  Intellectual life,  Interviews,  History,  criticism,  Uruguayan literature,  Argentine history,  literary criticism,  Israel,  Authors,  literature,  Borges,  Creative writing,  tango,  Argentine music,  tango composers,  tango lyricists,  tango lyrics,  popular culture,  Argentine popular culture,  Argentine dance,  Uruguayan dance,  Carlos Gardel,  Academia Porteña del Lunfardo,  Knife fighting,  fiction,  short fiction,  short story,  novel,  Jews,  Hebrew,  Spain,  military junta,  junta,  The Disappeared of Argentina,  authors' interrelations,  mass graves,  Inquisition,  immigration from Europe to Argentina and Uruguay,  gauchos,  Martín Fierro,  Alfonsín,  Pinochet,  Chile,  poetry,  Pablo Neruda,  travel,  compadres,  compadritos,  malevos,  milonga,  milonguita,  gaucho literature,  literatura gauchesca,  Jewish gauchos,  Italians in Argentina and Uruguay,  cocoliche.

People: Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986),  Marco Denevi (1922-1998),  Antonio Elio Brailovsky,  Fernando Sorrentino,  Julio Ricci,  Enrique Cadícamo,  José Gobello,  William Shand,  Leonardo Senkman,  Samuel Pecar,  José Luis Najenson

Places: Rio de la Plata,  River Plate,  Argentina,  Uruguay,  Buenos Aires,  Montevideo,  Israel,  Tel Aviv,  Jerusalem,  Jordan River,  Lima,  Peru,  Machu Picchu,  Cuzco

Times: 20th century interviews,  refers mostly to 20th century,  but also from 16th to 19th centuries.