there is a story about Arturito in which he undergoes nose surgery to look like his dog; another in which he pays for a farmhand’s training as a dancer; and yet another in which he wakes up in the middle of the night to liberate a lamb destined to become the Paschal lamb—in the form of a traditional roast. Arturito appears as a character in Manuel Mujica Láinez’s Invitados en el Paraíso; he makes a brief appearance in Sylvia Molloy’s El común olvido and in Leopoldo Marechal’s Adán Buenosayres. yet he remains indifferent to these appearances and seems never to have read the books in question. - María Moreno

• 61 pages
• Spanish
• pequeña fortuna ediciones
• Buenos Aires, August 2025

Arturo Jacinto Álvarez (Buenos Aires, 1921–2003), also known as “Arturito,” was a dandy, editor, and translator, a friend of the circle of women writers associated with the magazine Sur. in 1948, he founded the publishing house La Perdiz, which collaborated with artists such as Hector Basaldúa, Juan Battle Planas, Raúl Soldi, and Josefina Robirosa. he published the short stories Un almuerzo sagrado (1948) and Evocación de La Soledad (1948), the novel Esvén (1960), and the poetry collection Cinco sonetos (1962).

Diana Teira (Villa Domínico, Buenos Aires, 1992) works as a visual arts teacher in schools throughout the province. a graduate of the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (2014), she studied with Carlos Bissolino. in 2022, she participated in Manglar, coordinated by André Labaké. She has worked with PM Galería on several projects, including participation in arteba (2022), MAC Córdoba (2023), and Pokemostra (2023). she also participated in Salón Travieso at the ECA Mendoza (2023), the exhibition "18 Minutes from the Sun" at the Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires (2023), and "Acid Rain" at the Centro Cultural Recoleta (2025). she is currently enrolled in the Artists Program at Torcuato Di Tella University (2025).

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