H. A. Murena


Héctor Alberto Álvarez Murena, better known under his pen name of H. A. Murena, was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He wrote over twenty books on various topics, and was an important disseminator of German thought into the Spanish-speaking world. He is perhaps best remembered for Las Leyes de la Noche, translated into English as The Laws of the Night. In addition to his books, Murena was a contributor to the Argentinian literary review Sur, and to Argentinian newspaper La Nación.
Murena was married to Argentine author Sara Gallardo from 1970 until his death in 1975.

Works

Prose

  • First Testament, 1946
  • Fragments of the secret annals, 1948
  • The fate of the bodies, 1955
  • The Center of Hell, 1957
  • Homo Atomicus, 1962
  • Essays on subversion, 1962
  • The original sin of America, 1965
  • The secret name, 1969
  • Epitalámica, 1969
  • The Cavalry Colonel and Other Stories, 1971
  • The prison of the mind, 1971
  • Metaphor and the sacred, 1973
  • The Clear Secret. Dialogues with D. J. Vogelman, 1979

Poetry

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