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Juan José Saer Manuscripts, 1958-2004: Finding Aid

Summary Information

Call number: C1393

Repository: Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books

and Special Collections

Manuscripts Division

One Washington Road Princeton, New Jersey 08544

USA

Size: 6.2 Linear feet

in 12 archival boxes, 1 half-size archival box, and one

oversize flat box

Language(s) of Material: Spanish or Castilian

French

English

Abstract: Juan José Saer was an Argentine novelist, poet,

and literary scholar. This collection contains his

notebooks, notes, and drafts of essays, interviews,

novels, poetry, and short stories. Also includes

photographs of Saer and the city of Santa Fe,

Argentina.

Location: This collection is stored onsite at Firestone Library.


Table of Contents

Summary Information ..........................................................................................................................................1

Biography..............................................................................................................................................................3

Description............................................................................................................................................................ 3

Arrangement......................................................................................................................................................... 3

Access and Use................................................................................................................................................... 3

Acquisition and Appraisal..................................................................................................................................... 4

Processing and Other Information....................................................................................................................... 4

Subject Headings................................................................................................................................................. 4

Contents List..................................................................................................................................................

Series 1: Writings, 1958-2004 ..................................................................................................................... 5

Subseries 1A: Notebooks, 1961-2004 ................................................................................................... 5

Subseries 1B: Essays and Criticism, 1960s-2004 ................................................................................. 9

Subseries 1C: Interviews, 1976-2004 .................................................................................................. 11

Subseries 1D: Novels, 1961-2003 ....................................................................................................... 12

Subseries 1E: Poetry, 1958-1990 ........................................................................................................ 13

Subseries 1F: Short Stories, 1966-1982 ............................................................................................. 20

Subseries 1G: Miscellaneous Prose, 1974-1985 ................................................................................. 21

Series 2: Photographs, 1960s-2003 .......................................................................................................... 23


Biography

Juan José Saer was an Argentine novelist, poet, and literary scholar. He was born in Serodino, SantaFe, Argentina on June 28, 1937 to parents who had immigrated from Syria. After studying law andphilosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina, he went on to teach filmhistory and criticism there. Saer moved to Paris in 1968 and served as a lecturer on literature at theUniversité Rennes, commuting from his apartment above Montparnasse station. He set his fictionin Santa Fe and Paris, using the term "zona" to refer to this inter-connected fictional landscape inwhich the same places and characters appear and re-appear. His first success, Cicatrices (1969), acollection of four stories linked by the same crime, began to articulate the boundaries of this fictionalworld. In such novels as Nadie nada nunca (1980) and La pesquisa (1994), Saer used the frameworkof crime fiction to explore the nature of representation and the limits of interpretation. Saer publishedtwelve novels, five collections of short stories, numerous essays, and one poetry collection, and hisnovel La ocasión won the Nadal Prize in 1987. He died in Paris on June 11, 2005.

Description

This collection contains notebooks, notes, and drafts of Saer's writing, including notebooks for suchworks as Glosa, La grande, Nadie nada nunca, and La pesquisa. The collection includes drafts ofessays, poems, and short stories and notes for novels. Also contains photographs of Juan José Saerand Santa Fe, Argentina.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Writings, 1958-2004Subseries 1A: Notebooks, 1961-2004Subseries 1B: Essays and Criticism, 1960s-2004Subseries 1C: Interviews, 1976-2004Subseries 1D: Novels, 1961-2003Subseries 1E: Poetry, 1958-1990Subseries 1F: Short Stories, 1966-1982Subseries 1G: Miscellaneous Prose, 1974-1985

Series 2: Photographs, 1960s-2003

Access and Use

Access

Collection is open for research use.

Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information


Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from thecollection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts. Researchers are responsible fordetermining copyright questions.

Acquisition and Appraisal

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased from Guillermo Schavelzon in December 2010 (AM2011-58).

Processing and Other Information

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Juan José Saer Manuscripts, Box and Folder Number;Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton UniversityLibrary.

Works Cited

Hopkinson, Amanda. "Juan José Saer." The Guardian. 20 June 2005. Web. 11 Jan. 2011.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Alyssa Meyers in 2011 and updated by Jill Baron in 2011.

Encoding

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-02-24T10:57-0500

Descriptive Rules Used

Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.

Subject Headings

· Latin American fiction--20th century

· Latin American literature -- 20th century.

· Literature -- Criticism and interpretation -- 20th century

· Novelists, Argentine -- 20th century

· Poets, Argentine -- 20th century

· Manuscripts -- 20th century.

· Notebooks -- 20th century.

· Photographs -- 20th century.

· Latin American literature


Series 1: Writings ... (Continued)

Contents List

Series 1: Writings, 1958-2004

Size: 12 archival boxes, 1 half-size archival box, and 1 oversize box

Description: This series contains the writings of Juan José Saer, including extensivenotebooks, manuscripts of essays and criticism, written responses to interviews, notes andpartial drafts of novels, poems, notes and drafts of short stories, and other prose writing.

Arrangement: This series is arranged by type of writing into the following subseries: 1A:Notebooks, 1B: Essays and Criticism, 1C: Novels; 1D: Poetry, 1E: Short Stories, and 1F:Miscellaneous Prose.

Subseries 1A: Notebooks, 1961-2004

Size: 5 archival boxes, 1 oversize box

Description: Fifty-seven notebooks containing notes and drafts of essays, novels, plays,poems, short stories, and translations.

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by title of work; notebooks not pertaining to aparticular work are arranged by date.

Title Box Folder

El entenado, undated

El entenado, 1978-1983

Description: Interviews, information about El entenado, essays,including "El saber de Borges" and other short fragments without titles.Loose lecture notes and drawings.

1 1

El entenado, 1982

Description: El entenado and essays.

1 2

Glosa, undated

Glosa, 1982

Description: Contains one notebook with the beginings of Glosaand one loose sheet from the 1960s. Second notebook contains thecontinuation of Glosa.

1 3-4

Glosa, 1987

Description: Final manuscript of Glosa and drafts of published essays.

1 5

La grande, undated

La grande, 1995 1 6


Subseries 1A: Notebooks ... (Continued)

Description: Photograph of Saer as a young man in Santa Fe,Argentina removed to Series 2: Photographs, Box 13, Folder 9.

La grande, 2000

Description: Notes for La grande.

1 7

La grande, circa 2004

Description: Contains three notebooks. Yellow lined notebook "2.Miércoles. La manzana" with loose notes. Green notebook "3. Jueves.De crecida" includes loose notes. Yellow notebook "4. Viernes. Elvino." Also includes a TMS with autograph corrections entitled "Elprecisionismo."Green notebook "3. Jueves. De crecida" includes a photograph of Saerand fellow intellectuals in Santa Fe. The photograph has been removedto Series 2: Photographs [Box 13, Folder 9].

1 7

La grande, circa 2004

Description: Contains three notebooks. Green notebook with verticaland horizontal lines "5. Sabado. Márgenes," blue notebook "Domingo.El colibrí" and loose notes, and green notebook with horizontal lines"Domingo. El colibrí."

2 1

Draft of La grande, undated

Description: Four notebooks. Three sequential manuscripts of Lagrande. The first part appears in the green notebook, the second in theblue, and the third in the red. The fourth notebook is entitled "Martes:Agua de abril."

2 2

Notes for La grande, undated 2 3

El limonero real, 1963-1964

Description: First notebook (Norte) contains poems, the unpublishedessays "Sobre la novela poética" (1963) and "Sobre BernardShaw" (1963), prose works entitled "Responso" and "Los limones bajo laluna" (1964), and the beginning of El limonero real entitled "La mañanasobre el planeta" (November 9, 1964). Second notebook (Manón) containsunpublished essays, an unfinished and untitled play, short stories, notes,and a draft fragment of El limonero real.

2 4-5

Lo imborrable, undated

Lo imborrable, 1988-1992

Description: Material for Lo imborrable and notes from a trip toSomosierra in 1992.

2 6

Lo imborrable, 1989 2 7





Lo imborrable, 1993

Description: Lo imborrable and an unfinished draft of a story.

3 1

Lugar, undated

Lugar, 1990-1999 3 2

Lugar, 1996-2000

Description: Notes and drafts for Lugar. Other unpublished writing.

3 3

Nadie nada nunca, undated

Nadie nada nunca, 1969-1978

Description: 1968 agenda book containing manuscript drafts of worksfrom Argumentos: "Balnearios," "El intérprete," "Manos y planetas," and"En la costra reseca." Also includes drafts of "A medio borrar," and "Elpunto de la hoguera" as well as poems, notes on film, theater, tango,and literature, and the beginning of Nadie nada nunca (1972-1973).

3 4

Nadie nada nunca, 1973-1977

Description: Continuation and ending of Nadie nada nunca.

3 5

Las nubes, undated

Las nubes, 1996

Description: 4 notebooks containing notes and drafts of Las nubes.

3 6-9

Las nubes, 1997

Description: Final draft of Las nubes.

3 10

La pesquisa, undated

La pesquisa, 1977-1993

Description: Beginnings of La pesquisa.

4 1

La pesquisa, 1993

Description: Corrections for La pesquisa, text for an article on Antoniodi Benedetto, and notes for Las nubes.

4 2

La pesquisa, circa 1993

Description: La pesquisa and a text entitled "Orilla."

4 3

La pesquisa, 1994

Description: La pesquisa, notes, a plot for a film entitled "Ricardo Ríos,biólogo, viaja de Francia a su país de origen, Argentina," and writingentitled "El problema" and "Más allá del error."

4 4

El río sin orillas, undated 4 5



Miscellaneous, undated

Miscellaneous, circa 1963-1966

Description: Drafts of unpublished essays on such topics Dos Passos,Borges, Argentine literature, and Faulkner.

4 6

Unidad de lugar, 1965-1966

Description: Prose writing entitled "La relación de oro," "Fresco demano," "El pozo de cal," "Fotofobia," and other incomplete fragments.Also includes poems and an essay on Joyce.

4 7

Miscellaneous, 1966

Description: Manuscript entitled "Paramnesia," fragments ofunpublished essays, including the beginning of "El largo adiós" (onRaymond Chandler), lecture notes, and loose pages containing notesand a fragment of an essay on Borges.

4 8

Miscellaneous, circa 1960s

Description: Contains the short stories "Sombras..." and "Rojo blanco.Al rojo vivo." Also includes unpublished fragments and notes for Laocasión.

4 9

Miscellaneous, 1967-1984

Description: Unpublished essays "Sociología, estética, narración,""Para una crítica materialista de la poesía," writing on Arlt and Borges.Also includes poems, a translation of Genette, and loose sheets ofconference notes.

4 10


Description: Unpublished draft entitled "Rosa y dorada la ribera, lalibera rosa y dorada" (1971). Also includes sketches for La mayor(1972).

5 1

Miscellaneous, 1973

Description: Essays entitled "Zama" (1973) and "Tierras de lamemoria."

5 2

Miscellaneous, 1974

Description: Play entitled "El café" set during the Trojan War.

5 3

Miscellaneous, 1975

Description: Prose drafts entitled "Del juego del hombre "(1976),"Dos problemas," "El inconciente"; also includes poems and Spanishtranslations of El cantar de Gilgamesh and writing by Henri Michaux.

5 4

Miscellaneous, 1975-1976 5 5


Subseries 1B: Essays and Criticism ... (Continued)

Description: Short prose fragment entitled "El mito griego," poems,short script plan entitled "El subsuelo," essays, including the first draftof "Literatura y crisis argentina," an interview for La Quinzaine littéraire.


Description: Poems, various unpublished fragments, and an earlyversion of El entenado.

5 6

Miscellaneous, 1977, 1996

Description: "Instrucciones familiares del letrado Koei," the beginningof the unpublished short story "La giganta," script timeline and outline,interview, and drafts of published essays from the collections Elconcepto del ficción and La narración-objecto.

5 7


Description: Drafts of "En un cuarto de hotel" and "Letras de tango: dosconstantes," unpublished essays and writings.

5 8

Miscellaneous, 1980s

Description: Prepatory notes for novels (Glosa, La ocasión, Elintrigante), drafts of essays, lecture notes, and material for El conceptode fición, La narración-objeto and unpublished works.

5 9


Description: Notebook contains "Tardecita" and "Tarde de la primavera"and is mostly empty.

5 10


Description: Notebook "Arte" contains a script entitled "A fuego lento"and the beginnings of another, "Exils." Also includes a translation ofSamuel Beckett's "Company." Notebook with animals on the covercontains translations of poetry, notes for lectures on poetry, andloose sheets of poems. Oversize sheet of poems entitled "Como decoraciónes en un cemetario de negros" has been placed in an oversizefolder, Box 14. Notebook "Norpac" contains one sentence.

6 1-3

Subseries 1B: Essays and Criticism, 1960s-2004

Size: 5 archival boxes

Description: This subseries consists of notes and drafts of Saer's literary criticism, includingessays on Borges, Cervantes, and Vargas Llosa.

Arrangement: Organized alphabetically by work and subject; essays and notes notbelonging to a published work are arranged by date.

Title Box Folder

El concepto de ficción, 1985-1996 6 4-5


Subseries 1B: Essays and Criticism ... (Continued)

Description: TMs with autograph corrections, photocopy of a TMs withautograph corrections; clippings and other material; autograph notes. 60pp.

La narración-objecto, undated

Description: Fragment of AMs and a photocopy of a fragmentary AMs. 30pp.

6 6


Cervantes, Miguel de, 1998

Description: TMss of a conference paper on Don Quixote and a copyof Saer's article on Cervantes published in Corbières matin, August 8,1998. 9 pp.

6 7

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1995

Description: TMs with autograph corrections, 5 pp. Also includesclippings and notes.

6 8

Miscellaneous, before 1968

Description: Includes TMss with autograph corrections of thefollowing published essays: "My brother's keeper," "La leccion delmaestro," "La novela y la critica sociologica," "Unas paginas sobreRaymond Chandler" "Nota sobre la poesía," "Kuranes: los limites de lofantastico," and "Sobre el procedimiento epistolar." 40 pp. TMss withautograph corrections of the following unpublished essays: "Sobre JohnDos Passos,"Le nouveau roman y nosotros," "Sobre el artículo en queDella Volpe trata de rebatir a Lukács," "El punto de vista en la criticaliteraria," and "Explicación," the prologue to a projected book of essays.20 pp.

6 9-10

Miscellaneous, 1960s

Description: Entitled "Serie Negra." Includes TMss of the followingpublished essays: "La linguistica ficción," "La novela y la críticasociológica," "El guardian de mi hermano," "La lección del maestro,"and "El largo adiós," and autograph notes and a TMs of "La perversióninstitucionalizada." TMss of the following unpublished essays: " Mamère de Bataille," "Sobre John Dos Passos," "De Buenos Aires Affaire,"and "La muerte de Oberdan Salustro," 90 pp. Second folder includesTMss and AMss of the following essays: "La literatura de Batailleborden el ridículo," "¿Es papa el amo?," "Textos sobre Sartre," "Laboca de Tibero," "Nota al bolco sobre crítica y poesía," "Función actualde la poesía: una modesta proposición," "Que hombre de izquierda delmundo entero..." and "Teoría de la prosa." 30 pp.

6 11-12

Miscellaneous, 1969-1979 7 1


Subseries 1C: Interviews ... (Continued)

Description: TMss and AMss of the following published essays: "Notassobre la nueva nueva novela," "La invención de Morel," "La linguisticaficción," and "Tierras de la memoria." TMss of the following unpublishedessays: "Noticias de policía: la perversion institucionalizada, losintelectuales y la CIA, los travestis de Madama Arthur," "ContraFlaubert," "Fritz Lang y el psiconálísis," "El libro por venir," "EmilyDickinson y la cuestión de la poesía," and "Para un estudio de fiestas yespectaculos en América Latina." 50 pp.


Description: TMss with autograph corrections, notes, and clippings.Contains the essays "La novela versión francesa," "Il marchait unpeu courbé," " Martin Fierro: problemas de género," "Santuario 31,""Exilio y literatura," "Borges novelista," "La perspectiva exterior,""Borges francofobo," "Literatura y crisis argentina," "Poco importa queel escritor...," "Una literatura sin cualidades," "The Concept of Fiction,"and "La lengua como espacio privado." Also includes a list of essaysprepared for a book project. 100 pp.

7 2

Printed essays, 1975-2004

Description: Printed essays, including offprints and TMss: "Literaturaargentina hoy" (Vervuert Verlag, 1989), "Regards sur la littératuregauchesca" ( Études sur les mondes hispanophones 23), " Les parolesde tango dans le contexte de la poésie argentine" ( Musiques etsociétés en Amérique Latine, Mondes Hispanophones 26), "SobreBouvard y Pecuchet," "El soñador discreto," "Vanguardia y narracion,""Para un estudio de fiestas y espectáculos en América Latina," "Borgesfrancofobo," "Exilio y literatura," and " Martin Fierro: problemas degenero."

7 3

Undated drafts, undated

Description: TMss and AMss of the following published essays: "Borgesy su tiempo," "El proyecto literario," "Macedonio Fernández," and "ARenzi." TMss and AMss of the following unpublished essays: "Je doisdire que malheureusement...," "Evita," "Vecinidades de Char," "Sinninguna duda, preservar la democracia...," "En un gesto autoritarioy grosero," "Trabajo con Laure," "Ajuste de cuentas: sobre RobertoMaurer," "En photographie comme en société, (Mohror)," "Reflexiva ycoloquial la poesía de Hugo Padeletti...," and "Muy breve sobre RodolfoAlonso," 40 pp. Also includes a folder of notes, fragments, photocopiedarticles, and the first draft of an article on Joseph Conrad (AMs). 55 pp.

7 4

Subseries 1C: Interviews, 1976-2004

Size: Two folders

Description: Written responses to interviews. TMss and AMss, 100 pp. Also includesclippings.


Subseries 1D: Novels ... (Continued)

This subseries contains Saer's written responses to interviews.

Subseries 1D: Novels, 1961-2003

Size: 3 archival boxes

Description: This subseries consists of notes and fragmentary drafts of novels as well as apartial French translation of La vuelta completa.

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by title.

Title Box Folder

El entenado, undated

Description: Notes and photocopied material, 10 pp.

8 1

Glosa, 1982-1987

Description: Autograph notes and prepatory material. 20 pp.

8 2

La grande, undated

Notes and prepatory material, 1984-2003

Description: Autograph notes, 30 pp. Photocopies of pp. 492-499 ofGlosa, clippings, 1 TLs from "Raúl" about wine.

8 3

Clippings, 1984-2003 8 4

Background material, 1990-2001

Description: Information on wine, background material on Santa Fe,Argentina, including three issues of the magazine Hoy y manana andpostcards and a book of images of Santa Fe entitled Vistas de laprovincia de Santa Fe, 1888-1892: Fotografías de Ernesto H. Schlie(Santa Fe, Argentina: Diario El Litoral, 2000). Bibliography included.

8 5-6

Background material, undated

Description: Printed material on Santa Fe, including a street guide, andguides to the literature, painting, and photography of Santa Fe.

9 1-4

Background material, undated

Description: Printed material on Argentine trees, Latin Americanliterature, the architecture of Santa Fe, dream interpretation, and Islam.

10 1-2

Lo imborrable, undated

Description: Autograph notes, 20 pp.

10 3

Nadie nada nunca, undated

Description: Photocopy of TMs with autograph corrections. Includesautograph epigraph page. 178 pp.

10 4

Las nubes, undated 10 5


Subseries 1E: Poetry ... (Continued)

Description: Autograph notes and sketches, 10 pp.; 2 photocopied pagesof printed material by others (poems by Baldomero Fernández Morenoand Jorge Luis Borges).

La ocasión, undated

La ocasión, 1961-1984

Description: Folder marked "La ocasión: Parana, 1961; Guadalquivir,1973; Sena, 1984." Two pages of autograph notes and TMs withautograph corrections of eighteen chapters of the first draft (1961), 32pp.

10 6

La ocasión, undated

Description: Autograph notes, 10 pp.

10 7

La pesquisa, 1993

Description: Autograph notes, 5 pp. Typed notes, 1 p. Clipping.

10 8

La vuelta completa, undated

Description: Incomplete French translation of La vuelta completa. TMscontaining pp. 362-537.

10 9

Subseries 1E: Poetry, 1958-1990

Size: 1 archival box

Description: This subseries contains drafts of Saer's published and unpublished poetry.

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by title of work.

Title Box Folder

El arte de narrar: poemas, 1967-1982

Description: TMss and AMss, 110 pp. Includes index.

11 1-2

"Continuo", undated

Description: Unpublished poetry collection, TMss with autographcorrections, 15 pp.

"A Francisco Quevedo", 1961 11 3

"Elegía G.L. 1960", 1961 11 3

"La joven negra", undated 11 3

"Lac d'indiferencia", 1961 11 3

"Nada vuelve", 1961 11 3

"Octubre en Tostado", 1961 11 3

"Por Clodia (Lesbia) en el Cabaret", 1961 11 3



"Vivir es llegar hasta donde se puede seguir", 1960 11 3

"Para cuerdas", undated

Description: TMss of unpublished poetry collection, 10 pp.

"A Francisco Quevedo", 1960 11 4

"Arte poética", 1960 11 4

"Oh, muerte los arrojas a una zona...", undated 11 4

"Para cuerdas", 1960 11 4

"Para violín y piano", 1960 11 4

"Penetrar con flores", 1960 11 4

"Ripeness is All", 1960 11 4

"Relox de sol", 1960 11 4

"Preguntas y narraciónes", undated

Description: TMss with autograph corrections of an unpublished poetrycollection, 50 pp. Contains one poem, "Octubre en Tostido," laterpublished in El arte de narrar.

"A una amiga", 1967

Description: Possesses the same title as a poem published in El arte denarrar.

11 5

"A la luz de lámpara yo podría", 1970 11 5

"A una persona en el extranjero", 1961

Description: 4 versions

11 5

"Adolf Eichman", undated 11 5

"Balada bulevar Blanqui", undated 11 5

"Balada de los techos", 1961 September 4 11 5

"Biografías", 1967 11 5

"Una carta a Fidel Castro", undated 11 5

"Casi una oda", undated 11 5

"Consonantes", undated 11 5

"Crepúsculo en Helvecia", undated 11 5

"Cuerpos fugaces", 1965 11 5

"Dame mi día", undated 11 5

"De los nombres amados y de las cosas amadas", undated 11 5



"Durante años enteros caminamos...", undated 11 5

"Eco y Narciso", undated 11 5

"Elegía", undated 11 5

"Elegía G.L. Llamada final", undated 11 5

"Emily Dickinson se recuerda en Colastine", undated 11 5

"En el día de todos los santos", undated 11 5

"El estado poético", 1966 11 5

"Estrella, cuya raíz", 1965 11 5

"Extranjero en Aix (Sonata a Les Cours Mirabeau)", 1990

Description: Cadaqués

11 5

"Femme assise", undated 11 5

"Fragmento de una carta a Virginia Woolf", undated 11 5

"El golpe de gracia", 1961 11 5

"La gran nevada", 1980 11 5

"La llama que florece súbita...", undated 11 5

"Madrigal para cuerdas", undated


11 5

"Mano de flores para tu tristeza de flores...", 1958 11 5

"Memoria y balance (A.B.C.)", 1962


11 5

"La nube en anillo", 1980 11 5

"Oda a Juan L. Ortiz", undated 11 5

"Oda inscripta en octubre", undated 11 5

"Perspectivas de un viaje", 1968 11 5

"Poema de cumpleaños", undated 11 5

"El poeta recuerda", undated 11 5

"Las rosas en la biblioteca", undated 11 5

"Saga de Saer", 1970 11 5

"St. James Infirmary", 1962 11 5

"El salto mortal", 1961 11 5

"Siglo XVI, atribuido a Boscán (apócrifo)", 1961 11 5



"Un soneto", undated 11 5

"Tango canción", undated 11 5

"Toast en un álbum negro", 1970 11 5

"Tomatis en el estranjero", undated 11 5

"Variación sobre un tema de Propercio", 1961 September 17 11 5

"La vida breve", undated 11 5


Unpublished poems, undated

"Poemas manuscritos y dactilograma", undated

"Consonantes de mayo", 1963 May 26 11 6

"Elegía Gran Hotel", 1963 11 6

"En el vino está la verdad", 1970 11 6

"In My Craft or Sullen Art", 1975 11 6

"La guitarra en el ropero", 1973 11 6

"Mala gana", 1979 11 6

"Otra vez el verano", 1961 11 6

"El poema", undated 11 6

"Pequeños poemas en prosa", 1967 11 6

"Rima", undated 11 6

"Triunfo de Vallejo", 1968

Description: Written in Besançon, France.

11 6

"Poemas manuscritos", undated

"A Rubén Dario", 1968 11 7

"A Theo", undated 11 7

"A un viejo poeta", undated 11 7

"Aire de agosto", 1963 August 29 11 7

"Amen los fríos árboles de enero", undated 11 7

"L'amore", undated 11 7

"Aquí termina", 1968 March 11 7

"Arte poética", 1969 11 7

"El barco fantasma", 1985 11 7



"Casi una oda", 1969 11 7

"La cuadratura del círculo", 1969 11 7

"Como un torrente", undated 11 7

"Coplas", undated 11 7

"Correspondencia Ataud-Riviere", undated 11 7

"Dánae de Jean Gossaert, 1527", 1981

Description: The same sheet contains a version of the poem"Dánae" that appears in El arte de narrar.

11 7

"Déspues de un largo silencio", undated 11 7

"Elegía a Pinchón Garay", undated

Description: Different version than the one that appears in El artede narrar.

11 7

"Emily Dickinson", 1968 January 24

Description: Paris

11 7

"En la tumba de Apollinaire", undated 11 7

"Entrada en el fuego", 1967 11 7

"Epigrama", undated 11 7

"Epitos", 1981 11 7

"El estado poético ", undated 11 7

"Estragos", 1969 11 7

"Estrella, cuya raíz...", undated 11 7

"Filoxenes: El Banquete", undated 11 7

"Forma de la ausencia", undated 11 7

"Gerontion", undated 11 7

"Gualeguay", 1984

Description: Also includes notes.

11 7

"Hace un año", 1962 August 7 11 7

"Hong-Kong", undated 11 7

"Hoy, este insecto", undated 11 7

"Los huesos de Lucy", undated 11 7

"Indicios de inmortalidad en los recuerdos de la primera infancia",undated

11 7



"Juan de Garay", undated 11 7

"Lamento del guardia de frontera", undated 11 7

"Ligaduras", undated 11 7

"Ligustros en flor", undated 11 7

"Lírica urbana", 1972 11 7

"Las luces de Puerto Gaboto", 1967 11 7

La luz en la madera, undated 11 7

"Luz de mayo", undated 11 7

"Mañana", 1981 June 22 11 7

"Melancolía secundaria", 1972 11 7

"Las meninas", 1981 11 7

"Memorial contra el sábado", 1961 11 7

"Miles Gloriosus", undated 11 7

"Moisés", 1968 11 7

"Un negarse a (Negación a) llorar la muerte, por fuego, de una niñade Londres", undated

11 7

"Noche", undated 11 7

"Nocturno y pastoral", undated 11 7

"Nocturno a Rosario I", undated 11 7

"Nocturno a Rosario II", undated 11 7

"Novelistas", undated 11 7

"Otra vez octubre", undated 11 7

"La palabra que sangró la mañana", undated 11 7

"Para Bibí, en Rosario", undated 11 7

"Para despertar a una anciana", undated 11 7

"Parálisis", undated 11 7

"Porque el pájero del placer", undated 11 7

"Los propietarios", undated 11 7

"Pulpa de la manzana", undated 11 7

"Pulío su Masters...", 1974 11 7

"Que Juan nos espere", 1974 11 7

"Regiónes", undated 11 7



"Regreso de octubre", undated 11 7

"Retrato de una dama", undated 11 7

"La rosa de Góngora", undated 11 7

"San Martín", undated 11 7

"Segunda venida", undated 11 7

"Tardas pasadas con mujeres", undated 11 7

"Tradutores Tra", 1974 11 7

"Viaje a través del mundo", 1970

Description: Oslo

11 7

"Yo no sabía", 1971 11 7

Translations, undated

Description: Saer's translations of his poems into French and thepoems of others into Spanish.

"Actéon", undated 11 8

"Anne Rutledge", undated 11 8

"Danaé", undated 11 8

"Entrecado de los borradors de Dylan Thomas...", undated 11 8

"Este pan que ahora parto", undated 11 8

"Fragment d'un 'Juan Moreira'", undated 11 8

"Han Yu: Mélanges", undated 11 8

"L'infini bouscule a chaque instant", undated 11 8

"Indicios de inmortalidad en los recuerdos de la primera infancia",undated

11 8

"Juro por esto", undated 11 8

"Majestad caida", undated 11 8

"Navegando a Bizancio", undated 11 8

"Poemas de Li-Po de Cathay", undated 11 8

"La segunda venida", undated

"Vacilación", undated 11 8

"Vénus et Adonis", undated 11 8

"El viento broto a las cuatro", undated 11 8

Untitled poems, undated 11 9-10


Subseries 1F: Short Stories ... (Continued)

Description: Two folders of unidentified and untitled poems. TMss andAMss, 45 pp.

Poems of others, undated

Description: Contains fragments of poems by others with occasionaltranslations by Saer. TMss and AMss, 6 pp.

11 11

Subseries 1F: Short Stories, 1966-1982

Size: 1 archival box

Description: This subseries consists of notes and drafts of Saer's published andunpublished short stories.

Arrangement: This subseries is arranged alphabetically by title of work.

Title Box Folder

Esquina de febrero, undated

Description: TMs with autograph corrections, 21 pp. Also includes aphotocopy of that TMs and a photocopy of a printed short story, "Elcamino de la costa".

12 1

La mayor, undated

"A medio borrar", 1966

Description: TMs with autograph corrections, 23 pp.

12 2

"Argumentos", 1969-1970

Description: AMss, 10 pp. TMss, 40 pp. Drafts, fragments, and notes.

12 3

Unpublished stories, undated

"El arte de la poesía consiste...", undated

Description: AN, 1 p.

12 4

"A cada relampago, súbito y azul", undated


12 4

"El consúl", 1982

Description: AMs, 1 p.

12 4

"En azul adorable", undated

Description: AMs, 1 p.

12 4

"Los hijos de Hamlet", undated


12 4

"Lo más dificil es ser claro...", undated

Description: AMs, 1p.

12 4


Subseries 1G: Miscellaneous Prose ... (Continued)

"Lo que es mejor a orillas del Paraná que en París", circa 1971

Description: AN, 1p. TM, 1 p.

12 4

"Noche textual", undated

Description: Two TMss with autograph corrections, 6 pp.

12 4

Miscellaneous notes, undated

Description: ANs, 4 pp. Photocopied TMs, 3 pp.

12 4

Untitled short story collection, undated

Description: TMs, 71 pp.

12 5

"La muerte del duende", undated 12 5

"El baúl", undated 12 5

"Que te encuentre desnuda al llegar", undated 12 5

"El collar del águila", undated 12 5

"El acecho", undated 12 5

"Cientos de violínes", undated 12 5

"El baile", undated 12 5

"Abraxas", undated 12 5

"La flor en la boca", undated 12 5

"Deambulan el acaso", undated 12 5

"El sol partido", undated 12 5

"Calle de tierra", undated 12 5

"La rebelión de Apolo", undated 12 5

"El otro lado", undated 12 5

"Fragmentos", undated 12 5

"Mil novecientos noventa y nueve", undated 12 5

"Polémica sobre la medida exacta", undated 12 5

"QAXACOKPA", undated 12 5

Subseries 1G: Miscellaneous Prose, 1974-1985

Size: 1 half-size archival box

Description: This subseries contains bibliographic and biographical material, a manuscript ofthe book Cahier Juan José Saer, which features excerpts of his writing and other writers onSaer, notes for films, lecture notes, and prose fragments.

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically.


Subseries 1G: Miscellaneous Prose ... (Continued)

Title Box Folders

Bibliography and biography, undated

Description: Contains bibliographies of Saer's works and others' works onSaer. Also includes curriculum vitae and work documents.

12 6-7

Cahier Juan José Saer, 1985

Description: TMss of a collection of writings by Juan José Saer andwritings on Saer by others, 250 pp. Includes excerpts of Saer's publishedand unpublished works, including "Razones" "Atrides et Labdacides,""Choix en cours," "Sur le principe de fiction," "Por un relato futuro, diálogoPiglia-Saer," and articles on Roberto Arlt and Felisberto Hernández.

12 8-9

Film projects, undated

Description: TMs with autograph corrections entitled "Visiónes del Sur," 27pp. TMs entitled "Projecto de film de Ricardo Aronovitch," 2 pp. TMs of anuntitled film scenario written in French.

13 1-2

Lecture notes, 1979

Description: AMs, 5 pp. Notes for a course on Martín Fierro.

13 3-4

Unpublished prose fragments, 1960-1979

Description: AMss entitled "Para antología"; "Para continuo," withnotes for an unwritten novel; "No abundan, no, las cartas de P.G".; "Alsecretaria de Real Academia de Letras," a fictional letter presentedby the writer Jean Dupont-Durand; "Conversación con WashingtonNoriega" for "El círculo de octubre" with a draft of a letter to "Tununa yNoé" (March 22, 1969); "A los viajeros ingleses"; "El pasajero" (1969),"El paraíso recuperado" (1969) (autobiographical prose); "Sueños," adescription of Saer's dreams; recorded memories and writing on thenature of memory. 15 pp. TMss and AMss of the following publishedworks: "Las instrucciones familiares del letrado Koei," "Atridas yLabdacidas," "Nochero," "La conferencia," and a haiku. TMss of thefollowing unpublished works: "Prinicipios," "Serodino," "La primaveraen Alcalá de Henares," "La lluvia en Alcalá de Henares," "Tinta verde/Altos y bajos," "Nieve de primavera II," "Los dos cines," "No esperende mí...," "La luna de la mañana" (1980), "El amanecido" (1975), 50 pp.AMss entitled "A examinar" containing the following unpublished works:"Recuerdos," "Jorge el juego," "Literatura y felicidad," "A propósito deBouvard y Pechuchet," "Jean Pouillon, 'Del lado de Marx'," "Cicatrices,""El círculo de octubre," "En el extranjero," "Me llamo Pínchon Garay,""Apéndice," "El temor de no ser entendido...," "Martes nublado," "Hojasrosas," "Los hermanos Marx," "De Polonio a Laertes," "La pasíon segúnBelaqua," "A Bölendorff," "Para 'Estragos'," 40 pp.

13 4-7

Background material, 1986-2003 13 8


Series 2: Photographs ... (Continued)

Series 2: Photographs, 1960s-2003

Size: 1 folder

Description: This series contains 9 photographs of Juan José Saer, 3 photographs of others,and 23 photographs of Santa Fe, Argentina.

Arrangement: Arranged by subject of photograph.

Title Box Folder

Photographs of Juan José Saer, 1950s-2003

Description: 9 photographs. Four photographs of a presentation with JeanAndrea in Toulouse, March 27, 2003. Others taken in the house of RaúlBeceyro and Marylin Contardi.

13 9

Photographs of Others, 1984 July-August

Description: 3 photographs. Colastine, Argentina.

13 7

Photographs of Santa Fe, Argentina, undated

Description: 23 photographs. Includes photographs of Calle San Martín andthe Gualeguay River.

13 7

Saer Papers Princeton

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Transcript of Saer Papers Princeton