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Juan Emar
AuthorBooks · Second hand1893-1964
Juan Emar is the pen name of the Chilean writer, artist and critic Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi (1893–1964). He was the son of politician, lawyer and journalist Eliodoro Yáñez. In Paris, he associated with the avant-garde artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He published four books between 1935 and 1937 – Un año, Miltín, Ayer and Diez – but was met with critical indifference. His works were rediscovered after his death, and his reputation has grown in recent decades as a precursor of modernist literature in Latin America. He split his time between Santiago and Paris.
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About Juan Emar
Birth
1893
Death
1964
Juan Emar is the pen name of the Chilean writer, artist and critic Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi (1893–1964). He was the son of politician, lawyer and journalist Eliodoro Yáñez. In Paris, he associated with the avant-garde artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He published four books between 1935 and 1937 – Un año, Miltín, Ayer and Diez – but was met with critical indifference. His works were rediscovered after his death, and his reputation has grown in recent decades as a precursor of modernist literature in Latin America. He split his time between Santiago and Paris.
Juan Emar was a prominent Chilean writer and painter who explored 20th-century avant-garde movements.
His real name was Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi, but he chose the pseudonym Juan Emar as a phonetic play on the French expression j'en ai marre.
In addition to his work as a novelist and short story writer, he was a notable art critic.
His major work, Un año, reflects his unique style and avant-garde vision of literature.
Throughout his life, he produced a total of twenty works that solidified his legacy in Chilean culture.
