The Modern Novel

Biography

Juan Filloy was born in Córdoba in 1894. He graduated from the University of Córdoba. After working as a caricaturist, he became a lawyer. His works, many of which have seven letter titles, and which include novels, drama, articles, stories, history and poetry, were relatively unknown, even in Argentina, till recent years. They tend to be parodies, language games, witty. Indeed, they might be considered post-modern before there was post-modern. He went for thirty years without publishing but resumed in his seventies. He died in 2000, aged 106.

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Juan Filloy
Obituary
Juan Filloy (in Spanish)
Juan Filloy (in Spanish)
Juan Filloy (in Spanish)
Juan Filloy (in Spanish)
Juan Filloy, El escritor escondido (in Spanish)
Juan Filloy: El Escritor de los Tres Siglos 1894 – 2000 (in Spanish)
Notas técnicas sobre la obra de Juan Filloy (in Spanish)
Juan Filloy (1894/2000) (in Spanish)
Juan Filloy o la escritura como juego (in Spanish)