H. A. Murena

Héctor Alberto Álvarez (1923–1975), better known under his pen name of H. A. Murena, was an Argentine writer and poet. He is perhaps best remembered for Las Leyes de la Noche (1958), translated into English as The Laws of the Night.

Works

• First Testament (Primer testamento), 1946
• Fragments of the secret annals (Fragmentos de los anales secretos"), 1948
• The fate of the bodies ( La fatalidad de los cuerpos), 1955
• Homo Atomicus (Homo atómicus, 1962")
• Essays on subversion (Ensayos sobre subversión, 1962
• The original sin of America (El pecado original de América), 1965
• The secret name ( El nombre secreto"), 1969
• Epitalámica (El nombre secreto), 1969
• The prison of the mind (La cárcel de la mente), 1971
• Metaphor and the sacred (La metáfora y lo sagrado), 1973