The prestigious writer, editor and critic Luis Chitarroni died

The Argentine editor, narrator, essayist and critic Luis Chitarroniauthor of works such as “The Paleface” and the storybook “The Polytheistic Night”passed away this Wednesday at 64 years in it Sanatorium of the Trinitywhere he had been hospitalized since Monday due to a widespread infection.

“Goodbye, dear Chitarroni, we say goodbye to you with great affection. Thank you for having been part of Filba 2011 with your inaugural speech and jury of the first edition of the Medifé Filba Foundation Novel Award. Goodbye!”, the Filba Foundation said goodbye with a message on Twitter upon hearing the news of his death.

Publishing label creator The Equilateral Beastfrom where he starred in the phenomenon of independent publishersChitarroni passed away in the Sanatorium of the Trinitywhere he had been hospitalized since Monday due to a widespread infection.

He was born on December 15, 1958 in the city of Buenos Aires and from a very young age he began to work as South American editorwhere he published the first novels and story books of Daniel Guebel, María Negroni, María Martoccia, Gustavo Ferreyra, Sergio Chejfec, Sergio Bizzio, Charlie Feiling and many other authors of the corpus of the national literature. He also edited authors like Ana María Shua, Luis Gusmán, Ricardo Piglia and César Aira.

In 2021had entered the Argentine Academy of Letters (AAL). “Literature, like everything that poison and snatchhe must watch his weapons alone,” the editor told Télam that same year during an interview in which he reviewed his career and stated his aversion to the idea of final text and his admiration for walter benjamin as “exemplary figure” of criticism.

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“The Paleface”of 1997It is an essential piece of the Argentine contemporary literature. “Perhaps without meaning to, with that knowledge that the fictions when they are good, it shows a neighborhood school where forces have already begun to operate that were not even in the program of the XIX centurynor in the nationalist criticism and catholic from the beginning of the twentieth century“, said Beatrice Sarlo about that novel.

The Chilean publishing house Diego Portales brought together much of his critical work when he published “Day after tomorrow” (2021), an itinerary made up of analyses, reviews, articles, prologues and essays who wrote over almost 30 years to weave links between authors, works and contexts with eloquence and irony.

Was a crucial translator of poorly translated writersof referents of the sociology and of novels of jane austin and Stephen King. She had great success with his classes at the malba around the literature of the continent, which were registered in the book “Brief Argentine history of Latin American literature (from Borges)”.

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He was a jury for awards such as the filba, House of the Americas and of the konex. He also gave lectures in several countries and a seminar in Cambridgewhere he made an exhibition on the argentine literature. There he exchanged with Ian Mc Ewan and George Steiner.