Gabriel Casaccia
| Gabriel Casaccia Bibolini | |
|---|---|
 Gabriel Casaccia | |
| Born |
April 20, 1907 Asunción, Paraguay |
| Died |
November 24, 1980 (aged 73) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, playwriter |
| Genres | Modern Realism |
| Notable work(s) | La Babosa, La Llaga |
Gabriel Casaccia Bibolini (April 20, 1907 – November 24, 1980) was a Paraguayan novelist. He is widely considered by critics to be the founder of modern literature in Paraguay. Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguay's most famous novelist says, “Gabriel Casaccia is the founder of modern Paraguayan narrative, which gives, in good measure, a fundamental character to all of his work and, to its author, the unusual merit of having launched the genre in a country which was fictionally unknown.”
Life
He was born in Asunción to Benigno Casaccia and Margarita Bibolini and studied at the Colegio Nacional de la Capital. He finished his Law studies at the Law School of the Universidad Nacional de Asuncion and started work as a journalist, writing for El Liberal, El Diario and several other magazines in Asunción, following which he decided to devote himself entirely to fiction. During his first 17 years of literary production he wrote under both of his family names as "Benigno Casaccia Bibolini". Later on, he adopted the name of Gabriel Casaccia, under which name his best known works were produced. In his youth, he was politically active for a short period when he moved to Argentina, living first in Posadas, then in Buenos Aires.
He was married to an Argentinian named Carmen Dora Parola. He died in Buenos Aires, on November 24, 1980.
Works
His total literary production includes seven novels, two collections of short-stories and a play. Ordered chronologically, his novels are: “Hombres y Mujeres Fantoches” (1930), “Mario Pareda”(1939),”La Babosa"(1952), “La Llaga” (1963),”Los Exiliados”(1966), “Los Herederos” (1975) y “Los Huertas” (1981), published posthumously. The short-story collections are “El Guajhu”(1938) and ”El Pozo”(1947). The play “El Bandolero” was published in 1932.
See also
- Diccionario Biográfico "FORJADORES DEL PARAGUAY", Primera Edicción Enero de 2000. Distribuidora Quevedo de Ediciones. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
External links
|