Diego Vecchio
ARGENTINA, 1969
Diego Vecchio was born in Buenos Aires in 1969 and has lived in Paris since 1992. He is the author of three works of fiction: Historia calamitatum (Paradiso, 2000), Microbios (Microbes, Beatriz Viterbo, 2006), and Osos (Bears, Beatriz Viterbo, 2010) and one non-fiction work: Egocidios: Macedonio Fernández y la liquidación del yo (Egocides: Macedonio Fernández and the Liquidation of the Self, Beatriz Viterbo, 2003). He teaches Latin American literature and creative writing at the Paris 8 University.
«Diego Vecchio has constructed a body of work full of subtle humour that only appears to have been conceived far from the noise and bustle of Buenos Aires. Its power lies in a literary language that both screams its faith in the potential of literature and exudes literature on its own account. Something that had appeared lost in contemporary literature.» Juan Fernando García, Perfil
«Humorous erudition and an imagination as fantastic as it is rigorous,» Mathieu Lindon, Libération
«A sense of humour that pays homage to the best of surrealism and fantastic literature.» Susana Rosaro, Clarín
«Creates a world like no other, making Vecchio a kind of thaumaturge.» José Castello, O Globo
PUBLISHED BY: Spanish ANAGRAMA / BEATRIZ VITERBO / PARADISO EDICIONES | Brazil COSAC NAIFY | Bulgaria RIVA | France L'ARBRE VENGEUR / GRASSET | Türkiye KETEBE
By Diego Vecchio
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NOVEL, 2017
A FINALIST IN THE 35TH HERRALDE PRIZE FOR THE NOVEL Having been bequeathed a legacy by Sir James Smithson, Zacharias Spears founds a museum to exhibit the latest specimens sent back from...
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NOVEL, 2010
When we give a child a teddy bear to keep them company at night and drive away the nightmares, we have no idea of the inherent dangers. There's a good chance that later on, they might start...
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NOVEL, 2006
In 1768, Samuel Auguste Tissot, a doctor and confidante of Rousseau, the author of famous treatise on onanism, published another entitled The Health of the Men of Letters, in which he tried to...
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Egocides: Macedonio Fernández and the Destruction of the Self
ESSAY, 2003
Macedonio Fernández believed that literature is an encounter between a reader who doesn't read with an author who doesn't write. I.e: a misunderstanding in which author and reader end up...
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NOVEL, 2000
Historia calamitatum is the title of a letter that Abelardo wrote to a friend to describe his "de-testiculation'. Like all letters, it has an addressee, Eloísa, thus beginning a celebrated...
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