Jaime Sáenz

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Jaime Sáenz Guzmán (1921–1986) was a Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born in the city of La Paz, he lived virtually his entire life in that city, and its dark atmosphere had a powerful effect on much of his work. His poetry, though individual to the point of being difficult to classify, bears some similarities with surrealist literature.

Throughout his life, Saenz struggled with alcoholism, a struggle about which he frequently wrote in his poems. Owing to this fact, he is often viewed as a sort of poète maudit, or "cursed poet".

[edit] Works

• El escalpelo (1955).
• Aniversario de una visión (1960).
• Visitante profundo (1964).
• Muerte por el tacto (1967).
• Recorrer esta distancia (1973).
• Bruckner. Las tinieblas (1978).
• Imágenes pacenhas (1979).
• Al pasar un cometa (1982).
• La noche (1984).
• Los cuartos (1985).
• La piedra imán (1989).
• Felipe Delgado -novela- (1989).
• Los papeles de Narciso Lima Acha (1991).
• La noche (1984).
• Los cuartos (1985).
• Obras inéditas (1996).
• Obra dramática (2005).
• La bodega de Jaime Saenz (2005).

[edit] External links

• Jaime Saenz at University of Oregon