Edgardo Cozarinsky

Edgardo Cozarinsky was born in the year 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and a filmmaker in the country. Edgardo Cozarinsky is best known for the Spanish-language novel he wrote called Vudúurbano.

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Life

Edgardo Cozarinsky was born to the argentine family of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. His last name is from the grandparents.

Edgardo Cozarinsky studied literature at Buenos Aires University and he wrote for the local and Spanish cinephile magazines and he published an early essay on James. He became used to the novels that were written by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo BioyCasares and SilvinaOcampo in the city.  Edgardo Cozarinsky won the literary prize for his essay on gossip as narrative device in the writing of James and Proust. In the year 1974, Edgardo Cozarinsky published Borges y el cine, and it was a book that became a success.

Edgardo Cozarinsky visited Europe from the September of the year 1966 to June of the year 1967. When he got back to his country, he fully committed his time to his writing.

At the time of the turmoil of the Dirty War of the country, Edgardo Cozarinsky left Buenos Aires to Paris and it was there that he focused on the art of filmmaking. He manufactured fiction movies and essays, documentary material with his private reflection on the material.

Between the year 1970 and the year 1990, Edgardo Cozarinsky published less. His main novel from that time gained a good number of audience; Vudúurbano, which was a combination of fiction and essay like his film works.

Edgardo Cozarinsky went back to Buenos Aires for a short time after the military junta in the country. He then went back to the country after three year to produce the movie called Guerreros y cautivas.

Edgardo Cozarinsky was diagnosed with cancer in the year 1999. And this gave him the motivation to dedicate the remaining part of his life to writing. While he was in the hospital, he wrote the first two stories for La novia de Odessa. In the year 2005, Edgardo Cozarinsky wrote and directed the movie called Squash. In the year 2008, he began to work on the libretto for a chamber opera with the musician called Pablo Mainetti-Ultramarina, centered on the drives from his own novel called El rufiánmoldavo.

Partial bibliography

Ø  Vudúurbano (Urban Voodoo), stories, essays, memories (1985)

Ø  La novia de Odessa (The Bride from Odessa), short stories (2001)

Ø  El pase del testigo, essays and chronicles (2001)

Ø  El rufiánmoldavo, novel (2004)

Ø  Museo del chisme, essay and stories (2005)

Ø  Tresfronteras, short stories (2006)

Ø  Palacios plebeyos, chronicles and a short story (2006)

Ø  Maniobrasnocturnas, novel (2007)

Ø  Milongas, chronicles and short stories (2007)

Ø  Burundanga, short stories (2009)

Ø  Lejos de dónde, novel (2009)

Ø  Blues, chronicles and memories (2010)

Ø  La terceramañana, novel (2010 Spain)(2011 Argentina)

Ø  Dineroparafantasmas, novel, (2012 Argentina)(2013 Spain)

Ø  Nuevo museo del chisme, essay and stories (2013)

Film work

Ø  ... (Puntossuspensivos) (1971)

Ø  Les Apprentis-sorciers (1976)

Ø  La Guerre d'un seulhomme (1981)

Ø  Autoportrait d'un inconnu – Jean Cocteau (1983)

Ø  Haute Mer (1984)

Ø  Pour Memoire – Les Klarsfeld, unefamilledansl'Histoire) (1985)

Ø  Sarah (1988)

Ø  Guerreros y cautivas (1989)

Ø  BoulevardS du crépuscule (1992)

Ø  Scarlatti à Séville (1994)

Ø  Citizen Langlois (1994)

Ø  La barraca: Lorca sur les chemins de l'Espagne (1995)

Ø  Le Violon de Rothschildshort opera (1996)

Ø  Fantômes de Tanger (1997)

Ø  Le Cinéma des Cahiers) (2000)

Ø  Tango-Désir (2002)

Ø  Dans le Rouge du Couchant (2003)

Ø  RondNocturna (2005)

Ø  Apuntesparaunabiografíaimaginaria (2010)

Ø  Nocturnos (2011)

Ø  Carta a un padre (2013)