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Paraguay in the Novels of Gabriel Casaccia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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One of Paraguay's most important writers of the past forty years is Gabriel Casaccia, the pen name used by Benigno Casaccia Bibolini. Born in Asunción in 1907, he was educated at the Colegio Nacional of his native city and holds a doctor's degree from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales of the National University. Since 1935 he has resided in Argentina. His literary production has included five novels: Hombres, mujeres y fantoches, Mario Pareda, La babosa, La llaga, and Los exiliados. He is also author of two collections of short stories, El guahjú and El pozo, and one play, El bandolero. In this article, I will attempt to survey briefly Casaccia's interpretation of Paraguay in his novels, especially his view of the social and political vicissitudes of recent years.
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 76 - 83
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- Copyright © University of Miami 1970
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1 Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, 5th ed. (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1966), 2: 276.
2 “Aspectos de la cultura paraguaya en el siglo XX,” Cuadernos americanos, 120, no. 1 (1962): 84. The two works by Roa Bastos were published after La babosa: El trueno entre las hojas in 1953 and Hijo de hombre in 1960.
3 La babosa, 2nd ed. (Buenos Aires: Losada, 1952), p. 15.
4 La llaga (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Kraft, 1964), p. 175.
5 In Secciones ilustradas de los domingos, December 20, 1964.
6 Cuadernos, no. 99 (August 1965), p. 94.
7 Los exiliados (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1966), p. 7.
8 Ibid., p. 303.
9 Ibid, pp. 108-109.
10 See Plá, Josefina, “Situación de la cultura paraguaya en 1965,” Cuadernos, no. 100 (September 1965), pp. 151–158.Google Scholar