Rojas, Manuel

Rojas, Manuel

▪ Chilean writer
born Jan. 8, 1896, Buenos Aires
died March 11, 1973, Santiago de Chile

      Chilean novelist and short-story writer.

      As a youth, Rojas traveled along the Argentine and Chilean border while working as an unskilled labourer. Many of the situations and characters he encountered there later became part of his fictional world. He became a linotype operator and ultimately worked on Santiago newspapers and in the national library, and from 1931 he was head of the University of Chile Press.

      Rojas began as a poet (Poeticus, 1921) and then turned to writing short stories. His collections of short stories, Hombres del sur (1926; “Men of the South”) and El delincuente (1929; “The Delinquent”), showed the influence of the American writers Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Among his later volumes of short stories were El vaso de leche y sus mejores cuentos (1959; “The Glass of Milk and Its Best Stories”) and El hombre de la rosa (1963; “The Man of the Rose”). His fiction, which was largely autobiographical, treats the lives of lower-class individuals and their problems.

      His first novel, Lanchas en la bahía (1932; “Launches in the Bay”), is an ironic and satirical presentation of some of the social ills afflicting Chile. Rojas' most acclaimed work is Hijo de ladrón (1951; “Son of a Thief”; Eng. trans., Born Guilty), an autobiographical novel with existential preoccupations. The use of interior monologue, flashbacks, and stream of consciousness foreshadowed some of the techniques later employed in the Latin American new novel. Hijo de ladrón was translated into the major European languages and established Rojas as an international writer. Other novels include Mejor que el vino (1958; “Better Than Wine”), Punta de rieles (1960; “Shining Tip”), and Sombras contra el muro (1964; “Shadows Against the Wall”), in which many of the characters of Hijo de ladrón reappear.

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