Carlos Correas (Buenos Aires, 1931 – December 17, 2000) was an Argentine philosopher, novelist and essayist. He studied at the University of Buenos Aires, where he graduated in Philosophy and taught.
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Carlos Correas (Buenos Aires, 1931 – December 17, 2000) was an Argentine philosopher, novelist and essayist. He studied at the University of Buenos Aires, where he graduated in Philosophy and taught.
As a writer he was the first in Argentina to dare to reflect the homosexual subculture. In the 1950s he published his first texts and stories in the Revista Contorno and the Revista Centro. During the dictatorship of Eduardo Lonardi due to his double condition of homosexual and Peronist he was arrested and tortured, having to go into exile in France during that period.1 Simultaneously he is part of an existentialist and Peronist group with Oscar Masotta and Juan José Sebreli that dissolves at the beginning of the 1960s. Together with them appearing in the magazine Contorno, they collaborated in deepening the reading of Jean-Paul Sartre.
He publishes several books, including La operación Masotta (published in 2005 and republished in 2013 by Interzona editora) and Los reportajes de Félix Chaneton (republished in 2014 by Interzona editora) which brings together three narratives: "Pequeños memorias", "En la vida de un pueblo" and "Último recurso".
He taught at Kennedy University, University of La Plata and the University of Buenos Aires.
Correas committed suicide in Buenos Aires on December 17, 2000. Plunged into a deep depression, he opened his veins and then threw himself out of the window of his apartment located at 42 Pasteur Street. He lived on the sixth floor apartment "C". Such an apartment owes to an internal courtyard. He was 69. He left no letter explaining his motives and his diaries have been lost. Apparently the latter were taken by friends who arrived at the apartment once they learned of the fact.
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