Mauricio Rosencof
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Mauricio Rosencof
(1933– ) Uruguayan playwright and journalist. The son of Jewish immigrants, Rosencof was a political activist and a journalist early in life, forming the Union of Communist Youths and being instrumental in the Tupamaros national liberation movement. Before he was imprisoned by the military dictatorship in 1972, he wrote a number of plays for El Galpón, including El gran Tuleque (The Great Tuleque, 1960), Las ranas (The Frogs, 1961), and Los caballos (The Horses, 1967). From 1973until1984 he was in isolation, but his guards paid him with cigarettes and extra food for writing poems and letters for them; he used the cigarette papers to write dialogue, which was eventually smuggled out. Although he composed about eight plays during his imprisonment, he was able to remember and reassemble only four of them. The best known is El combate en el establo (Fight in the Stable, Montevideo, 1985), in which two men are jailed in a stable until they become cows. The younger man resists complete transformation by crafting a crude flute, resisting oppression by holding onto humanity.
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Mauricio Rosencof
| Mauricio Rosencof | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mauricio Rosencof 30 June 1933 Florida, Uruguay |
| Nationality | Uruguayan |
| Occupation | journalist, writer |
Mauricio Rosencof (born June 30, 1933) is a well-known Uruguayan playwright, poet and journalist from Florida, Uruguay. Since 2005 he has been Director of Culture of the Municipality of Montevideo.
He was a founder of the Communist Youth Union and leader of the National Liberation (Tupamaros) (MLN-T) and in 1972 was arrested and tortured. After the coup of 1973 he was held "hostage" with eight more prisoners.[1] After twelve years in prison and horror, he was released in 1985.[1]
He lives in Montevideo.
Works
- Medio mundo (2009)
- Una gondola anclo en la esquina (2007)
- El barrio era una fiesta (2005)
- Leyendas del abuelo de la tarde (2004)
- Las cartas que no llegaron (2003)
- La margarita. Historia de amor en 25 sonetos (1994)[2]
- El Vendedor de Reliquias (1992)
- Memorias del calabozo (1989, en coautoría con Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro)
- El hijo que espera (1988)
- El regreso del Gran Tuleque (1987)
- El lujo que espera (1986)
- El combate del establo (1985)
- El saco de Antonio (1985)
- Los caballos (1967)
- Las ranas (1961)
- La valija (1961)
- El gran Tuleque (1960)
References
- ^ a b "Mauricio Rosencof" (in Spanish). espectador.com. http://www.espectador.com/perspectiva/tertulia/rosencof.htm. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
- ^ Obra escrita en cautiverio; posteriormente musicalizada por Jaime Roos.
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