Juan Emar
Juan Emar is the pen name of Chilean writer and artist Alvaro Yanez Bianchi (1893-1964), taken from the French for 'I'm fed up'. A strong advocate of the literary avant-garde, he was linked with surrealist groups in Santiago and Paris. He published four books between 1935 and 1937 - Un ano, Miltin 1934, Ayer and Diez - with little critical success. His works were reissued in the 1970s and he is now considered to be one of the most significant South American writers of the twentieth century....
