Marco Denevi Quotes

Marco Denevi was an Argentine author of novels and short stories, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His work is characterized by its originality and depth, as well as a criticism of human incompetence. His first work, a mystery novel titled Rosaura a las diez , was a Kraft award winner and a bestseller. In 1964, it was translated into English as Rosa at Ten O'Clock. Other famous works of his include Los expedientes , Ceremonia Secreta , El cuarto de la noche , and Falsificaciones .

Ceremonia Secreta was filmed as Secret Ceremony in 1968 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, and Peggy Ashcroft. It was directed by Joseph Losey, with a screenplay written by George Tabori. In his edition of this and other Denevi works , Donald A. Yates mentions Denevi's admiration for Wilkie Collins, whose work this novella resembles.

He is less known as an essayist, but he also cultivated that genre with his República de Trapalanda , a late work, where he took on Ezequiel Martínez Estrada and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's view of the Argentine republic.

He was born in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at a young age he began playing the piano and reading. He graduated from college in 1939, and did not receive his law degree until 1956.

In 1987 he was inducted into the Argentine Academy of Letters.



It is important to note Denevi's desire to be a playwright. He wrote many dramatic pieces but felt he was not talented enough to write for the theater in Spain. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. May 1922 – 13. December 1998
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Famous Marco Denevi Quotes

“Magnets humiliate iron. It's a theory about love.”

El imán humilla al hierro. Es una teoría sobre el amor.
Falsificaciones (1977)

“My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it.”

Mi culpa marcha tan lenta que siempre la alcanzan el perdón y el olvido.
Falsificaciones (1977)

“The moral of all fables: Man is an animal.”

Moraleja de todas las fábulas: el hombre es un animal.
Falsificaciones (1977)

“A dictator is often a revolutionary who has made a name for himself. A revolutionary is often a bourgeois who hasn't.”

A menudo un dictador es un revolucionario que hizo carrera. A menudo un revolucionario es un burgués que no la hizo.
Falsificaciones (1977)

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