![]() ![]() ![]() Gorodischer's science fiction output – at least twenty untranslated novels and collections – far more closely resembles the highly literary work of Jorge Luis Borges or Italo Calvino than it does the more rural (or, from an urbane, intensely urban Argentinian standpoint, rusticated) Magic Realism of authors like Gabriel García Márquez or Mario Vargas Llosa. ![]() ![]() Gorodischer was also closely associated with the city of Rosario, home of her well-known character Trafalgar Medrano, introduced in her novel Trafalgar ( 1979 trans Amalia Gladhart 2013) this is constructed as a Club Story sequence in which Medrano, a comical millionaire businessman, serves as both observer and social critic as he makes his rounds of several planets and then returns home to tell his fellow citizens about them. (1928-2022) Argentinian author of nonfiction and fiction works in both the realist and the fantastic modes, who was nevertheless very much identified as a science fiction writer. ![]()
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