Rodolfo Walsh

David Conlon (Maynooth University)

Ed. by Cara Levey, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 9 Jan 1927
Died 25 Mar 1977

Places

Born in Argentina
Active in Argentina

Cultural Identities

Latino/a US-American

Activities

Primary

Journalist

Other

Novelist
Revolutionary, Activist

Resources

Walsh's Works

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Rodolfo Walsh initially gained recognition in Argentina for the three short, conventionally structured detective fictions collected in

Variaciones en rojo

[Variations in Red] (1953), and for his role as editor of an anthology of classic detective fiction in translation which appeared around the same time. In spite of this early tendency towards literary formalism, however, Walsh’s legacy in Latin American literature now rests on his rejection of the conventions of the detective genre just a few years later. With

Operación massacre

[Operation Massacre] (1957), Walsh produced a ground-breaking nonfiction novel which has since attained the status of a classic, partly on account of its innovative narrative technique, and partly because of how its exposure of covert state violence under…

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Citation: Conlon, David. "Rodolfo Walsh". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 June 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13585, accessed 21 November 2024.]