Partes Del Todo

by Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill

Reúne y resume buena parte de la obra poética de un escritor que ganó visibilidad y reconocimiento por su narrativa, pero que siempre dejó claro que su primer (y último) amor era la poesía.

95 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (born in Buenos Aires in 1941), who normally goes by just his surname, Fogwill, was an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist.

Fogwill was full professor at the University of Buenos Aires< publisher of a legendary poetry book collection, essayist, and specialized columnist in communication subjects, literature and cultural politics. The success of his story "Muchacha punk" (Punk girl), which received the first prize in an important literary contest in 1980, made him leave his job as a businessman, and begin, according to his words, "a plot of misunderstandings and misfortunes" that took him to his present occupation as a writer. Some of his texts have made their way into diverse anthologies published in the United States, Cuba, Mexico, and Spain. He is perhaps particularly notable for his short novel Los pichiciegos (translated as Malvinas Requiem), which was one of the very first narratives to deal with the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom.

Reviews

[Elías Casella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un viaje por lo incómodo de las contraposiciones del pensamiento y las pasiones primales que sobreviven al rol social en el que nos haya tocado nacer.

[G · Rating 4 out of 5]

Desde un vacío temblando viene // Y todo es una cifra de la memoria // La iteración, la cadencia, la evasión, el fade. Satura el fraseo hasta que repele sentidos tratables por exceso de sentidos posibles. El maltrato de la sintaxis. Temas entrópicos, todos. Es poesía que avanza moribunda, agonizante, con una tremenda voluntad de vida. Fogwill es expulsivo porque no le gusta lo que ve. Eso no lo reduce, sino que lo enfurece.