Bernardo Verbitsky

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Bernardo Verbitsky (1907–1979) was an Argentine writer and journalist (his son Horacio Verbitsky has followed the same professional paths).

Verbitsky was a screenwriter, a journalist with Noticias Gráficas, and a member of Academia Porteña del Lunfardo ("Buenos Aires Lunfardo's Academy"). He reported Buenos Aires' ups and downs; his writings were linked to tango and other essential aspects of the city. Hugo del Carril based its 1958 motion picture Una cita con la vida ("A date with life"[1]) on Verbitsky's novel Calles de tango.

His 1957 novel Villa Miseria también es América (roughly "Povertyville is also [a part of] America") gave its popular name to Argentina's shanty towns (villas miseria).

The lacanian psychoanalyst German Garcia dedicated a chapter of his book "El psicoanalisis y los debates culturales. Ejemplos argentinos." (Buenos Aires,Paidos, 2004) to Bernardo Verbitsky and his interesting inclusion in the complex net of argentinian psychoanalysis. German Garcia finds in Verbitsky some mode of extracting consequences from analytical practice.

Bernardo Verbitsky died in Buenos Aires on March 15, 1979.

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Es difícil empezar a vivir ("It's hard to start living") (1940)
En estos años ("During these years") (1947)
Café de los Angelitos y otros cuentos porteños ("Little Angels' Café and other porteño stories") (1950)
Una pequeña familia ("A small family") (1951)
La esquina ("The corner")
Un noviazgo ("A relationship")
Villa Miseria también es América ("Povertyville is also America") (1957)
Calles de tango ("Tango streets") (1958)
Vacaciones ("Vacations")
La tierra es azul ("The Earth is blue")