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PoetryCielitos y diálogos patrióticosBartolomé Hidalgo · 1816not translated into EnglishSongs and dialogues of gauchos on the struggle against Spain and on what it left to the poor.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryLa cautivaEsteban Echeverría · 1837not translated into EnglishA captive woman and her wounded husband flee an Indian encampment across the pampas.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreEl gigante AmapolasJuan Bautista Alberdi · 1841not translated into EnglishThree officers flee a straw giant that none of them has seen move.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe QuenaLa quenaJuana Manuela Gorriti · 1845Promised to a magistrate, a young Creole woman loves a mestizo raised far from his mother.LiteraturePublic domain
EssayFacundo: Civilization and BarbarismFacundo. Civilización y barbarieDomingo Faustino Sarmiento · 1845The life of a caudillo of the plains, and through it the country that made it possible.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelAmalia: A Romance of the ArgentineAmaliaJosé Mármol · 1851A wounded opponent is hidden in a widow's house, in the Buenos Aires of Rosas.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryFaustoEstanislao del Campo · 1866not translated into EnglishA gaucho tells his friend about an opera he saw in Buenos Aires as if he had witnessed real events.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetrySantos Vega o los mellizos de la FlorHilario Ascasubi · 1872not translated into EnglishAn old singer tells a country couple the story of two twins, one honest, the other a bandit.Literature
PoetryThe Gaucho Martín FierroEl gaucho Martín FierroJosé Hernández · 1872Forcibly conscripted to guard the frontier, a gaucho deserts and finds only an empty house.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryEl nido de cóndoresOlegario Andrade · 1877not translated into EnglishIn his nest in the Andes, an old condor remembers the passing of the liberation troops.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelJuveniliaMiguel Cané · 1884not translated into EnglishA former boarder remembers the great school of Buenos Aires and its rector.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetrySantos VegaRafael Obligado · 1885not translated into EnglishA legendary payador, wandering soul of the pampa, sees a stranger coming who wants to challenge him.Literature
NovelEn la sangreEugenio Cambaceres · 1887not translated into EnglishThe son of Italian immigrants wants to enter the best society of the capital by cunning.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesStrange ForcesLas fuerzas extrañasLeopoldo Lugones · 1906Scholars invite a friend to see their experiments on sound, on flowers, or on the speech of a monkey.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryLamentacionesAlmafuerte · 1906not translated into EnglishThe verses of a poor schoolteacher, in the tone of a preacher, collected in 1906.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaLa Revolución de MayoMario Gallo · 1909The revolutionary days of 1810 replayed in fifteen tableaux, each filmed from a single point of view.Cinema
CinemaAmaliaEnrique García Velloso · 1914The silent adaptation of a novel against Rosas, performed by the young people of Buenos Aires's elite in aid of a charitable cause.Cinema
CinemaNobleza gauchaHumberto Cairo, Eduardo Martinez de la Pera and Ernesto Gunche · 1915A gaucho goes down to Buenos Aires to find the shepherdess whom a rich horse buyer has abducted.Cinema
CinemaEl último malónAlcides Greca · 1918A Mocoví revolt reenacted on the spot by survivors, between documentary and reconstruction.Cinema
NovelEl inglés de los güesosBenito Lynch · 1924not translated into EnglishAn English anthropologist who has come to study indigenous bones becomes attached to a young girl on the estancia.Literature
PoetryOcreAlfonsina Storni · 1925not translated into EnglishSonnets in which a woman refuses the place assigned to her, with irony rather than complaint.Literature
CinemaThe Return to the BulinLa vuelta al bulínJosé Agustín Ferreyra · 1926A silent comedy drawn from a tango, in which a poor man puts up with an unfaithful wife.Cinema
NovelDon Segundo SombraRicardo Güiraldes · 1926A fatherless boy follows an old gaucho and learns from him the trade of cattle drover.Literature
EssayNo toda es vigilia la de los ojos abiertosMacedonio Fernández · 1928not translated into EnglishA metaphysics that denies time, space and the difference between waking and dreaming, written with humour.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Seven MadmenLos siete locosRoberto Arlt · 1929A clerk accused of embezzlement joins a secret society that is to be financed by brothels.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaLa quena de la muerteNelo Cosimi · 1929Wealthy city dwellers come to restore their fortunes in the mountains, facing a mestizo and his sister.Cinema
Cinema¡Tango!Luis Moglia Barth · 1933A lover cast aside for a wealthy rival, in a revue of tango songs and orchestras.Cinema
PoetryLa rosa blindadaRaúl González Tuñón · 1936not translated into EnglishPoems to be sung and chanted about a Spanish workers' revolt crushed in 1934.Literature
CinemaLos muchachos de antes no usaban gominaManuel Romero · 1937A son of good family, a tango dancer and the Buenos Aires nights of long ago, between bars and cabarets.Cinema
CinemaLa vuelta al nidoLeopoldo Torres Ríos · 1938An accountant, a wife under suspicion, an anonymous letter, and almost everything plays out within.Cinema
PoetryFábula del corazónVicente Barbieri · 1939not translated into EnglishThe first book of a poet born in the countryside around Buenos Aires, a former typographer and schoolteacher.Literature
CinemaPrisoners of the LandPrisioneros de la tierraMario Soffici · 1939Yerba mate day labourers chained by debt, a boss, a doctor who drinks and his daughter.Cinema
NovelThe Invention of MorelLa invención de MorelAdolfo Bioy Casares · 1940A fugitive spies on visitors who do not see him and keep repeating the same gestures.Literature
Essay338171 T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia)338171 T.E. (Lawrence de Arabia)Victoria Ocampo Aguirre · 1942An Argentine woman defends in French the greatness of an English officer who became an anonymous soldier.Literature
CinemaLa guerra gauchaLucas Demare · 1942The guerrilla war of the gauchos of the North against the royalist army, and an enemy officer they try to win over.Cinema
Short storiesFictionsFiccionesJorge Luis Borges · 1944Short tales in which a library, an encyclopaedia or a memory that forgets nothing become vertigos.Literature
CinemaCamino del infiernoLuis Saslavsky and Daniel Tinayre · 1946A wealthy widow, a poor painter whom she marries and smothers, and a rival.Cinema
NovelAdam BuenosayresAdán BuenosayresLeopoldo Marechal · 1948A poet and his friends spend three days crossing a Buenos Aires that has become a mythical city.Literature
NovelThe TunnelEl túnelErnesto Sábato · 1948A painter tells how he came to kill the only woman who, he believed, had understood him.Literature
CinemaDios se lo pagueLuis César Amadori · 1948A penniless gambler in search of a protector, and a church beggar who was once an inventor.Cinema
NovelBodas de cristalSilvina Bullrich · 1951not translated into EnglishA novel of marital intimacy, the first great success of a widely read novelist.Literature
CinemaIf I Should Die Before I WakeSi muero antes de despertarCarlos Hugo Christensen · 1952A boy holds a clue about the child abductor at large near his home, and dares not tell his father, a policeman.Cinema
CinemaDark RiverLas aguas bajan turbiasHugo del Carril · 1952Two exploited brothers in the depths of the yerbales of the North, where revolt is rumbling against the managers.Cinema
PoetryIn the MoremarrowEn la masmédulaOliverio Girondo · 1954The last collection of an avant-garde poet, written in a language made of invented words.Literature
PoetryLa danza nupcialRaúl Gustavo Aguirre · 1954not translated into EnglishThe soliloquy of a tortured cacique, carried by long lines of free verse.Literature
NovelThe House of the AngelLa casa del ángelBeatriz Guido · 1954A teenage girl raised in fear of sin, and the deputy who comes to her father's house on the eve of a duel.Literature
NovelRosa at Ten O'ClockRosaura a las diezMarco Denevi · 1955A boarding house in Buenos Aires, a shy painter, love letters, and five witnesses who each tell their own version.Literature
NovelZamaAntonio Di Benedetto · 1956A Crown official waits in Paraguay, for years on end, for the post that would bring him closer to the capital.Literature
PoetryUnida nocheRicardo E. Molinari · 1957not translated into EnglishOdes to the west wind, to the pampas and to an angel of the evening, haunted by absence.Literature
NarrativeOperation MassacreOperación MasacreRodolfo Walsh · 1957A clandestine execution in June 1956, and the investigation of a writer who tracks down, one by one, those who survived it.Literature
CinemaThe House of the AngelLa casa del ángelLeopoldo Torre Nilsson · 1957A teenage girl under the thumb of a devout mother, in a large house of the twenties.Cinema
NovelLos dueños de la tierraDavid Viñas · 1958not translated into EnglishA mediator for the Radical government faced with the workers' strikes of southern Patagonia, in the early 1920s.Literature
PoetryVertical PoetryPoesía verticalRoberto Juarroz · 1958Brief, concise pieces that question speech, death and what lies hidden beneath the surface of things.Literature
CinemaEl jefeFernando Ayala · 1958A band of young men under the sway of a leader, and the slow discovery of what he is worth.Cinema
Short storiesLa furiaSilvina Ocampo · 1959not translated into EnglishShort tales in which children, servants and objects carry an ordinary cruelty.Literature
Short storiesLas armas secretasJulio Cortázar · 1959not translated into EnglishFive stories, most of them in Paris, in which a letter, a photograph or an appointment opens onto something else.Literature
CinemaEl negociónSimón Feldman · 1959An imaginary village, the dung of its horses, and a whole administration that grows rich by selling it.Cinema
CinemaShunkoLautaro Murúa · 1960In a school in the rural north, a teacher from the city faces children whose language he does not know.Cinema
NovelBomarzoManuel Mujica Láinez · 1962A hunchbacked duke of the Italian Renaissance, haunted by immortality, fills his estate with stone colossi.Literature
PoetryLos juegos peligrososOlga Orozco · 1962not translated into EnglishPoems of tarot, talismans and conjurations, in which writing becomes the riskiest of rites.Literature
NovelSoutheasterSudesteHaroldo Conti · 1962A man of the river, its reeds, his dilapidated boat and the wish to live alone, among the islands and the channels.Literature
CinemaLos inundadosFernando Birri · 1962A family driven out by the floods of the Salado, sheltered in a railway wagon that ends up moving.Cinema
CinemaOdd NumberLa cifra imparManuel Antín · 1962A couple who have taken refuge in Paris receive letters that speak in the present tense of a dead brother.Cinema
CinemaDar la caraJosé A. Martínez Suárez · 1962Three young men just out of the barracks, and the paths they take.Cinema
CinemaMan on Pink CornerHombre de la esquina rosadaRené Mugica · 1962On the night of the centenary, in a suburb celebrating, a man who has been pardoned comes to challenge the most feared knife in the neighbourhood.Cinema
PoetryWorks and NightsLos trabajos y las nochesAlejandra Pizarnik · 1965Short pieces on silence, night and death, addressed to a “tú” and often turned towards the poem itself.Literature
CinemaChronicle of a Boy AloneCrónica de un niño soloLeonardo Favio · 1965An eleven-year-old boy moves between the reformatory and the shantytown where his mother lives.Cinema
TheatreThe CampEl campoGriselda Gambaro · 1967An accountant hired on an estate where everything is polished, and whose nature he gradually comes to understand.Literature
CinemaInvasionInvasiónHugo Santiago · 1969An imaginary city with the features of Buenos Aires, besieged by strangers in grey, and a few men in black to defend it.Cinema
NovelEisejuazSara Gallardo · 1971not translated into EnglishAn Indian from the north of the country, guided by what he believes to be the divine word, tells his life in a Spanish marked by his own language.Literature
CinemaThe TruceLa treguaSergio Renán · 1974The diary of a widower close to retirement, and the arrival at the office of a young employee who changes his days.Cinema
CinemaRebellion in PatagoniaLa Patagonia rebeldeHéctor Olivera · 1974Santa Cruz, 1920: striking wool workers, a broken agreement, and the army sent against them.Cinema
NovelKiss of the Spider WomanEl beso de la mujer arañaManuel Puig · 1976Two prisoners with nothing in common share a cell, and one tells the other films during the night.Literature
NovelArtificial RespirationRespiración artificialRicardo Piglia · 1980A young novelist, an historian uncle, the papers of an exile from the time of Rosas and long conversations in the provinces.Literature
CinemaTime for RevengeTiempo de revanchaAdolfo Aristarain · 1981A former trade unionist turned dynamiter, a comrade he meets again, and a staged accident to make the company pay.Cinema
NovelThe WitnessEl entenadoJuan José Saer · 1983The ship's boy of a sixteenth-century expedition, spared by those who killed his companions, shares their life for a decade.Literature
CinemaThe Lost RepublicLa República perdidaMiguel Pérez · 1983Fifty years of Argentine political life, from the early thirties to the mid-seventies, carried by a single voice.Cinema
NovelMalvinas RequiemLos pichiciegosRodolfo Fogwill · 1983Deserters holed up beneath the island during the war, and four leaders who decide everything.Literature
CinemaCamilaMaría Luisa Bemberg · 1984Under Rosas, a girl from a prominent family and a young priest, based on a true story.Cinema
CinemaLos chicos de la guerraBebe Kamin · 1984Three boys from different backgrounds, and the same Falklands War, told from the aftermath.Cinema
NovelSans la miséricorde du ChristHéctor Bianciotti · 1985not translated into EnglishA witness retraces the life of a schoolteacher who came from South America and died in Paris, in the neighbourhood of her last months.Literature
NovelEl que tiene sedAbelardo Castillo · 1985not translated into EnglishA man caught in drink, whose thirst seeks something other than drunkenness.Literature
CinemaThe Official StoryLa historia oficialLuis Puenzo · 1985A history teacher, at the end of the dictatorship, begins to doubt the origin of her adopted daughter.Cinema
CinemaA King and His MovieLa película del reyCarlos Sorín · 1986A young director stubbornly sets out to film the story of a Frenchman who made himself king of Patagonia, with no money and no actors.Cinema
NovelZona de clivajeLiliana Heker · 1987not translated into EnglishA young woman who seeks truth in physics, her professor who becomes her lover, and the struggle between thought and the body.Literature
CinemaMan Facing SoutheastHombre mirando al sudesteEliseo Subiela · 1987A patient who claims to be a stranger to the Earth, and the psychiatrist charged with understanding him.Cinema
CinemaThe SouthSurFernando Solanas · 1988A man released in 1983 walks through his neighbourhood for a whole night, among tango and memories.Cinema
CinemaSecret WeddingBoda secretaAlejandro Agresti · 1989A man reappears after twelve years without a trace and returns to the village where his fiancée no longer recognises him.Cinema
CinemaAfter the StormDespués de la tormentaTristán Bauer · 1991A worker laid off during the crisis of the late eighties, and his family sliding into poverty.Cinema
CinemaUn muro de silencioLita Stantic · 1993A foreign crew shoots the story of a disappearance, and the woman who lived through it finds out.Cinema
CinemaTango feroz: la leyenda de TanguitoMarcelo Piñeyro · 1993A young musician of the late sixties, a young girl, and the Argentine rock that is born around them.Cinema
EssayA History of ReadingAlberto Manguel · 1996The act of reading, from Babylon to the present day, told through scenes and readers rather than centuries.Literature
CinemaRapadoMartín Rejtman · 1996A teenager robbed of his motorbike, his head shaved, tries to steal one in his turn.Cinema
CinemaPizza, Beer, and CigarettesPizza, birra, fasoIsrael Adrián Caetano and Bruno Stagnaro · 1998Four young street thieves and their leader, in Buenos Aires at the end of the century.Cinema
TaleMapuche and Tehuelche Narratives of PatagoniaRelatos mapuche y tehuelcheAnonymous · 1998Tehuelche creation narratives and a Mapuche myth of the flood, from one end of Patagonia to the other.Literature
CinemaCrane WorldMundo grúaPablo Trapero · 1999A former bass player turned crane operator tries to make a living from his work in a country in crisis.Cinema
CinemaGarage OlimpoMarco Bechis · 1999A young activist abducted from her home is taken to a garage in the city centre that has become a detention site.Cinema
CinemaNine QueensNueve reinasFabián Bielinsky · 2000Two street swindlers, one day, and a sheet of rare stamps to sell before a buyer leaves.Cinema