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Juan Manuel Rodríguez Lopez (b. 6 May 1945, Bilbao, Spain) is a former Jesuit priest,[2][3][4][5][6]
an Ecuadorian professor and author from Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country,
Spain. He has written a number
of novels, including El Espantapájaros (translation:
The Scarecrow).[5][7]
Man of
Ashes
The book A7393: Hombre de Cenizas (translation:
A7393: Man of Ashes) was published in Mexico in 1990 as an
autobiography, with Salomon Isacovici as lead author (and
the subject of the book) and Rodríguez as co-author.[1][5]
Isacovici (1924–1998) was a Romanian Jew who survived the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.[5]
In 1995, the University of Nebraska
Press planned to publish an English language version,
translated by Dick Gerdes, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia.[6][8]
The publisher described the book as important to Holocaust studies
as a rare account of a Romanian, and Latin American Jewish
writer.[9][10]
The book's publication was delayed due to a dispute over the
book's principal authorship and its status as fiction or
non-fiction. Rodríguez threatened legal action, stating that the
book was a fictionalized account of Isacovici's life written
largely by Rodríguez and incorporating some of his own memories. He
argued that he was the main author of the book and should be
credited as such.[2][4][6][10][11]
Rodríguez's claim was critiqued as an example of literary usurpation and as an attempt to cast doubt
on a Holocaust survivor's experience.[4][6]
The English translation was finally published in 1999 as
non-fiction, with Isacovici and Rodríguez listed as co-authors.[6][8][11]
Published
works
Books
- Rodríguez, Juan Manuel (2005) (in
Spanish). Cinturón de Fuego [Ring of Fire]. Quito: Ediciones Libri Mundi. ISBN 9789978570463.
OCLC 71010635.
(2003) (in Spanish).
El Poder de los Vencidos [The Power of the Vanquished]. Madrid: Mileto Ediciones. ISBN
9788495282507.
- Isacovici, Salomon; Rodríguez, Juan
Manuel (1999). Man of Ashes.
[8]
- Rodríguez, Juan Manuel (1997) (in
Spanish). El Pez Perfume [The Fish Smell]. Quito: Grupo
Editorial Norma. ISBN
9789978540497.
(1997) (in Spanish).
Cuaderno De Apuntes [Notebook]. Quito: Universidad San
Francisco de Quito.
(1996) (in Spanish).
El Pulso de la Nada [The Pulse of Nowhere]. Quito: Libresa. ISBN
9789978803639.
(1992) (in Spanish).
El Mar y la Muralla [The Sea and the Wall]. Quito: Libresa. ISBN
9789978201800.
(1991) (in Spanish).
Fricciones [Frictions]. Quito: Ediciones de la Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Ecuador. ISBN 9789978770146.
OCLC 24912898.
- Isacovici, Salomon; Rodríguez, Juan
Manuel (1990). A7393: Hombre de Cenizas.
[1]
- Rodríguez, Juan Manuel (1990).
El Espantapájaros.
[7]
(1983) (in Spanish).
Jorma el Predicador. Madrid: Alba. ISBN
9788475670003.
(1981) (in Spanish).
Algunas Compras y Otros Encargos [Some Purchases and Other
Charges]. Quito: Ediciones
y Distribuciones J.L.I. OCLC 17039378.
Academic
publications
- Información Estética en el Relato (2008) ISBN
9789978550687
- Desafíos de la televisión frente a otros medios de
comunicación, in Evolución y retos de la televisión
(2003)
- Riqueza informativa, miseria comunicacional, in El
futuro de los diarios (2002)
- Educar para la vida, Desarrollo del pensamiento, Tomos I - X
(1997–2000)
- Diccionario de conjugación de los verbos castellanos
(1998)
- Comunicación dinámica, Tomos I y II (1993–1995)
- Manual de conjugación de los verbos castellanos (1986)
- Aproximación à la estructura narrativa de la novela
Cumandá, in Cumandá, contribución a un centenario (1979)
- R. Pérez Torres o el absurdo agónico, in Situación del
relato ecuatoriano II (1977)
References
- ^ a
b
c
Isacovici, Salomon; Rodríguez, Juan
Manuel (1990) (in Spanish). A7393: Hombre de Cenizas [A7393:
Man of Ashes]. Mexico: Editorial Diana. ISBN 9789681320850.
OCLC 27333907.
- ^ a
b
Su, Di (2001). Evolution in Reference and
Information Services: The Impact of the Internet. Binghamton, New York: Haworth Information Press. p. 124. ISBN
9780789017239. http://books.google.ca/books?id=IvqbuSm4sHYC&pg=PA124. Retrieved 27 December
2009.
- ^
Stavans, Ilan (2000). "Novelizing the
Holocaust?". The Essential Ilan Stavans. Routledge. ISBN
9780415927543. http://books.google.com/books?id=DOE9Z8HS1ewC&pg=PA89.
- ^ a
b
c
Ozick, Cynthia (2006). "Rights of History and Rights
of Imagination". in Wiesel, Elie; Katz, Steven T.; Rosen, Alan.
Obliged By Memory: Literature, Religion, Ethics: A Collection
Of Essays Honoring Elie Wiesel's Seventieth Birthday.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
pp. 8–9. ISBN 0815630646. http://books.google.ca/books?id=f721SBeYxbUC&pg=PA8. Retrieved 27 December
2009.
- ^ a
b
c
d
Sokol, Neal; Stavans, Ilan (2004). Ilan Stavans:
Eight Conversations. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press. ISBN
9780299199104.
- ^ a
b
c
d
e
Stavans, Ilan (2001). The Inveterate Dreamer:
Essays and Conversations on Jewish Culture. University of Nebraska
Press. pp. 37–42. ISBN
9780803292789. http://books.google.ca/books?id=D4pT3eJvtr4C&pg=PA37.
- ^ a
b
Rodríguez, Juan Manuel (1990) (in
Spanish). El Espantapájaros [The Scarecrow]. Mexico:
Editorial Diana. ISBN 9681319648. OCLC 22158228.
- ^ a
b
c
Isacovici, Salomon; Rodríguez, Juan
Manuel (1999). Man of Ashes. trans. by Dick Gerde. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press. ISBN
9780803225015.
- ^ Sweet, Kim (26 January 1999). "U. Nebraska:
Delayed Holocaust book finally available at U. Nebraska". Daily
Nebraskan.
- ^ a
b
Freed, Kenneth (10 September 1998).
"University of Nebraska Press Refuses to Release Holocaust Memoir".
Omaha
World-Herald.
- ^ a
b
"NU to Release Jew's Memoir In
February". Omaha World-Herald:
p. 14b. 29 November 1998.
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