El relato policial argentino

By Isaac Aisemberg, Manuel Peyrou, Abelardo Castillo, and more

2009

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El relato policial nace con Edgar Poe a mediados del siglo XIX y madura en el curso de la centuria siguiente con figuras como Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie y Raymond Chandler. Tanto el policial clásico como su vertiente "negra" germinaron en nuestro país de la mano de eximios autores, que lograron aclimatar el policial a suelo rioplatense otorgándole cualidades genuinamente propias y singulares. En los relatos que conforman esta antología, Abelardo Castillo, Adolfo Pérez Zelaschi, Isaac Aisemberg y Adolfo Bioy Casares incursionan en el tópico del crimen perfecto, mientras que Manuel Peyrou, Velmiro Ayala Gauna y Ricardo Piglia perfilan investigadores cuya lucidez e intuición logra develar los más inextricables misterios. En suma, una selección de cuentos de impecable hechura que nos enfrentan a desafíos lógicos y a pistas falsas, que sólo el lector atento tendrá a bien develar.

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Abelardo Castillo nace en Buenos Aires, pero toma como lugar de nacimiento, por decisión, la ciudad costera bonaerense de San Pedro, adonde se traslada con su padre, y donde vive hasta los 18 años. Publica sus primeros cuentos en 1959. Gana un premio en el concurso de la revista "Vea y Lea" en 1959 (jurado: Borges, Bioy Casares y Peyrou). Funda "El Grillo de Papel", continuada por "El Escarabajo de Oro", una de las revistas literarias de más larga vida (1959-1974), enfocada por su adhesión al existencialismo, al compromiso sartreano del escritor. Luego, desde 1977 hasta 1986, dirige "El Ornitorrinco". Ha obtenido varios premios nacionales e internacionales y algunos de sus cuentos, novelas y obras de teatro, han sido traducidos al inglés, francés, italiano, alemán, eslovaco, ruso y polaco.

Adolfo Pérez Zelaschi

Author · 4 books

He may also appear as Adolfo L. Pérez Zelaschi or Adolfo Luis Pérez Zelaschi.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Author · 33 books

Adolfo Vicente Perfecto Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of wealthy parents. He began to write in the early Thirties, and his stories appeared in the influential magazine Sur, through which he met his wife, the painter and writer Silvina Ocampo, as well Jorge Luis Borges, who was to become his mentor, friend, and collaborator. In 1940, after writing several novice works, Bioy published the novella The Invention of Morel, the first of his books to satisfy him, and the first in which he hit his characteristic note of uncanny and unexpectedly harrowing humor. Later publications include stories and novels, among them A Plan for Escape, A Dream of Heroes, and Asleep in the Sun. Bioy also collaborated with Borges on an Anthology of Fantastic Literature and a series of satirical sketches written under the pseudonym of H. Bustos Domecq.

Ricardo Piglia is one of the foremost contemporary Argentine writers, known equally for his fiction (several collections of short stories; the novels "Artificial Respiration", 1980; "The Absent City", 1992; "Money to Burn", 1997) and his criticism (1986 "Criticism and Fiction", 1999 "Brief Forms", 2005 "The Last Reader". Piglia has received a number of awards, including the "Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras 2005", "Premio Planeta 1997", and "Premio Casa de las Américas 1967". Piglia resided for a number of years in the United States, where he taught Latin American literature at Princeton University, but in 2011, after retirement, he decided to return with his wife to his home country. In 2013 he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Piglia died on January 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina after struggling for a long time with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.