Argentina Literature fired one of its popular icons.
April 30 2011fallece Ernesto Sabato, at 99 years of age. The death Sabato was confirmed by his collaborator, Elvira González Fraga. "A fortnight ago had bronchitis," he said in a conversation with Radio Mitre. "I was suffering for some time, but still spent some good times, especially when listening to music," he told the cable channel Todo Noticias.
Witness and paradigm of his time, the figure of Sabato acquired a different dimension after the military dictatorship with his work as head of the Conadep (National Commission on Disappeared Persons).
play a role far from invincible, the author of the trilogy of novels "The Tunnel" (1948), "On Heroes and Tombs "(1961) and" Abaddon the destroyer "(1974) was a writer and a human being controversial, crossed by its own contradictions, present in some of his literary characters.
" I never considered myself a writer professional, who published a novel a year. On the contrary, often in the afternoon burned what he had written in the morning, "he said again and again to refer to the work that marked the generations of 60 and 70 and faded as his eyes began to fail, to be replaced by the painting.
His final writings, including memoirs and chronicles of old age, is his last farewell with writing, beyond some flash vital as touching confession of love to your partner Elvira Fernández Fraga, now head of the foundation that bears his name.
His figure regained strength as spokesman longed for a society values \u200b\u200bcrossed first by the military dictatorship and then by the neoliberalism of the 90. His message focused on young people: "Only those who are able to embody the utopia he said will be eligible for the decisive battle, to regain the respect of humanity we have lost."
Sabato was born on June 24, 1911 in Buenos Aires city of Rojas. It was to be honored morning at the Book Fair and the Cultural Institute of the province of Buenos Aires, as this year would be 100 years old.
During his long career, at the request of then-President Raul Alfonsin between 1983 and 1984 chaired the CONADEP (National Commission on Disappeared People), whose research, reflected in the book No More, opened the doors for trial the military juntas.
Sabato in 1984 received the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award given to English-speaking writers, so it was the second Argentine writer to receive this award, after Jorge Luis Borges in 1979.
In 1975, Sabato won the National Consecration of Argentina and a year later was given the award for Best Foreign Novel in France by Abaddon the destroyer.
Then, in 1977 it was awarded Italy Medici and the following year he was awarded the Grand Cross of Civil Merit from Spain, and in 1979 was honored in France as Commander of the Legion of Honor.
* Clarín.com
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