Includes handwritten journals, notebooks, and yearly agendas. Folder titles are derived from the following sources when available: cover titles, first entry date, and notebook brand in parenthesis. Many include inset ephermal materials such as receipts, letters, maps, and boarding passes.
This series is organized by subseries, then chronologically with undated items arranged first.
Subseries 1: Journals, 1954-2014
Diario (Loose Pages), 1954-1955
Lunes, 22 de junio (Journal), 1959
2 agosto (Black Journal), 1963-1971
17 de julio (Black Journal), 1965
Diciembre (Black Journal), 1965
Febrero (Black Journal), 1966
Enero (Black Journal), 1967
27 de mayo (Black Journal), 1967
Noviembre (Black Journal), 1968-2013
Mayo (Black Journal), 1969
Diciembre (Black Journal), 1969
Julio (Black Journal), 1970
Septiembre (Black Journal), 1970
Junio (Black Journal), 1970-1971
Junio (Black Journal), 1970-1972
Septiembre (Black Journal), 1972
Mayo (Black Journal), 1973
Agosto 12 (Red Journal), 1973
Julio (Black Journal), 1971-1974
Abril (Black Journal), 1975
Septiembre 10 (Black Journal), 1975
Enero (Black Journal), 1976
Enero (Black Journal), 1979-1980
Julio 17 (Black Journal), 1980-1988
Mayo 21 (Black Journal), 1985-1986
Febrero (Black Journal), 2012-2014
Subseries 2: Notebooks, 1953-2013
(Avon 50 hojas Notebook), undated
(Norte 40 hojas Notebook), undated
(Perlita Notebook), 1959
Las Trampas (Avon Notebook), 1964
Loose pages, circa 1970s-1980s
Zola (Loose pages), circa 1977
(Black Notebook), circa 1987-1989
Agenda (Red Agenda Book), 1970
Agenda (Black Agenda Book), 1973
Avon (Gray Agenda Book), 2003
Series 2: Writings, 1962-2016
Contains complete or nearly complete drafts and published versions of Piglia's articles, novels, short stories, and film scripts. Much of the material in the drafts section contains typewritten and computer print-out spiral bound drafts with handwritten annotations and corrections on loose paper. The series also contains files of various publishing contracts and legal documents.
This series is organized by subseries, then alphabetically by folder title.
Subseries 1: Drafts, 1962-2016
Blanco nocturno (pp. 149-302), 2010
"De poemas", 1962-1963
"Diario de un loco", undated
"El anillo", undated
El astillero, undated
El astillero - Tercera versión, 1996
El camino de Ida (2), 2013
"El impenetrable", circa 2012
El impostor - Primera versión, 1994
"El joyero", undated
El Laucha Benítez, 1968
"El tallador", undated
Foolish Heart, undated
Foolish Heart - First Draft, 1993
Harbour - Second Draft, 1991-1993
"Historia de la edad media", undated
"Homenaje a Julio Cortázar", 1994
"Improvisaciones sobre un tema de Oscar Masotta (Comentario a Roberto Arlt, yo mismo)", 1999
La sonámbula - Quinta versión, 1996
Los casos de Croce, 2016
"Lucía Nietzche", undated
"Memoria y tradición", undated
"Mi defensa", undated
Prisión perpetua - pp. 1-53, undated
Sin salida (Folder 1 of 2), 1970
Sin salida (Folder 2 of 2), 1970
"Tierna es la noche", undated
"Trata de blancas", undated
El último lector - Contracts, 2005
Foolish Heart - Contract, 1992
Formas breves - Contracts, 1999-2000
Plata quemada - Contracts, 1998-2007
Various Contracts, 1976-2013
This series contains loose page handwritten and typewritten notes and drafts concerning reoccuring research topics in Piglia's work such as the Argentine novel, Argentine political history, Latin American literature, genre, narration, translation, and fiction, among other topics. Piglia kept extensive notes on the works of a number of Latin American literary figures such as Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Macedonio Fernández, Leopoldo Lugones, Manuel Puig, and Juan José Saer, among others. Piglia's tendency to draw connections among multiple of his research topics and investigations is heavily reflected in these notes. The order of this material reflects, in most part, the original order the collection was received. General themes and topics were used in attempt to best describe this content; folder content will certainly overlap with other folder content and titles.
This series is organized by subseries, then alphabetically by folder title.
Subseries 2: Drafts, 1962-1996
Blanco nocturno, undated
"Cómo leer a Borges" I, undated
"El encargo social", undated
"El fluir de la vida", undated
"El ingeniero", undated
"El jugador de Chejov", undated
Gombrowicz.1 - Introducción, undated
"La educación sentimental", undated
"La otra escena", undated
"La prolijidad de lo real", undated
"Llegada. Malvinas. Locura (La ficción en la realidad)" and Other Unidentified Work, undated
"Los dos linajes", undated
"Notas al margen de Adán Buenosayres" / "Analogía" (Sarmiento) / La ficción colonial (Arlt), undated
"Nueva tesis sobre el cuento", 1996
Respiración artificial, 1970
"Roberto Arlt: Génesis de una escritura" / "Roberto Arlt: Legibilidad y apropiación", undated
"Santiago Santos, mi amigo", 1962
"Sarmiento, escritor", undated
"The Writer's Laboratory", undated
"Un sueño de Borges", undated
"Una visita", undated
Various Loose Page Drafts, undated
Arlt y Borges: Elementos y materiales para una historia de la literatura argentina, 1985-1986
Campo intelectual, undated
Crónicas inglesas, undated
Escritos en marcha: "Borges - La muerte y la brújula" / Various notes on Borges (1 of 2), undated
Escritos en marcha: "Borges - La muerte y la brújula" / Various notes on Borges (2 of 2), undated
Fichas, undated
Fichas bibliográficas, circa 1989
Notas sobre Carlos Astrada, undated
Notas sobre "El otro", undated
Notas sobre filosofía, undated
Notas sobre Juan José Saer, undated
Notas sobre Rodolfo Walsh, undated
Notas sobre traducciones / Jorge Luis Borges / Roberto Arlt / Manuel Puig / Franz Kafka, undated
Teoría, undated
Teoría del color, undated
Traducción y Arlt, undated
Various Research Topics, undated
This series contains letters and correspondence Ricardo Piglia kept with family, friends, colleagues, publishers, cultrual and educational institutions. Some correspondents signed their letters with nicknames or only first names and these names were preserved in the folder titles in quotations (corrections have been made as new information is received, and folders kept as is, with new information added in parentheses). Piglia kept his correspondence with his employers separately in his teaching files; these files can be found in the corresponding sections in the "Academic Career and Teaching Files" series.
Alphabetically by individual's last name, agency's name, or letter file (A-Z); when last name is not known, letters were sorted by first name or first letter of name. Incomplete letters or letters from unidentified senders where arranged after the alphabetically sorted material.
A, 1987-1993
"Andrea", undated
"Andrés" (Andrés Rivera), 1973-1986
B, 1964-1996
Balderston, Daniel, 1986-1988
Bouthemy, Christian, 1985
British Medical Journal, 1977
C, 1993
"Carmen", 1986
Cavallari, Hector Mario, 1985
"China" (Josefina Ludmer), 1980-1985
Corbatta, Josefina, 1996-1997
Corporación Eticon C.A., 1976
Correas, Jaime, 1982
D, 1987-2016
De Grandis, Rita, 1991
Díaz Quiñones, Arcadio, 1988-2000
E, 1992-1999
Editions W, 1986
Editorial Celtia, 1986
Editorial Tiempo Contemporaneo, 1969
"Elena", 1976
F, 1987-1992
Folios Ediciones, S.A., 1981-1982
Fornet, Jorge, 1993-1996
Franco, Jean, 1986
G, 1987-1995
"Goyo", undated
H (Héctor Libertella), 1974-2004
"Hugo" (Hugo Gola), 1991
I, 1987-2009
J, 1977-1994
"John", 1993
"Juan", 1985-1992
K, 1992-1994
L, 1984-1994
Lara Zavala, Hernan, 1992
Legrand, Christine, circa 1984
"Lisandro", 1981
Ludmer, Josefina, 1982
M, 1981-2000
Minieri, Ramón, 1990
Moreno-Durán, Rafael Humberto, 1985
N, 1988-1997
"Negra", undated
O'Donnell, Pacho, 1980
Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1970-1989
P, 1977-2005
Pezzoni, Enrique, 1973
Piglia, Pedro, 1953-1983
Poirier, José María, 2001
Princeton University, 1985-1988
R, 1987-1994
"Rafael", undated
"Riky", 1981-1982
Riva, Humberto, undated
"Roque", 1994-1997
S, 1978-2000
Saraiva, Arnaldo, 1998
Sazbón, José, 1973-1984
"Silvia", undated
Sosa, Teresa, 1981
Suhrkamp Verlag, 1986
T, 1994-2011
"Tatela", circa 1984
Tcherkaski, Osvaldo, 1976-1982
V, 1981-1998
Vlanovsky, Carlos, 1982
Viñas, David, 1969-1974
W, 1992
Waisman, Sergio, 1993-1995
Weisman, Carlos, 1976
Y, 1995
Unidentified Senders, 1975-1994
This series contains Piglia's academic and teaching files. It includes course development notes, course syllabi, occassionally annotated course readers, and administrative files pertaining to his employment at various universities.
This series is organized by subseries, then alphabetically by folder title.
Administrative File, 1989-1990
Como se construye una historia de la novela - Handwritten Course Development Notes, circa 1990
Como se construye una historia de la novela - Handwritten Course Development Notes, circa 1990
Narrative Prose in Latin America - Las tres vanguardias (Spanish 547 Course Readers), 2002-2009
Sarmiento: Civilización y barbarie. Ideología y literatura. (Spanish 548 Syllabus), 1989-1998
Administrative Files, 1992-1999
"Novela y tragedia", circa 1994
Seminario: "Roberto Arlt", 1993
Seminario: "Vanguardia y novela (Saer, Puig, Walsh)" - Conversación con Juan José Saer, 1998
"Teoría del marco", circa 1994
Clases, 1987-1996
Curso en filosofía, undated
Various Coursework Matter, undated
Contains candid and personal family photographs, professionals portraits of Piglia, travel photographs, photographs of other individuals, and collected blank postcards.
This series is organized by subseries, then alphabetically by folder title.
Blank Postcards, undated
Travel Photographs: Paris, undated
Travel Ephemera, circa 1972-1973
Event Poster, 2006
Home and Office, undated
Places, undated
Reproductions of Historical Photographs (1890s) from the Archivo General de la Nación, undated
Saer, Juan José, circa 1991
Saer, Juan José and others, undated
This series contains materials about Piglia and or his work. It includes awards, health records, interviews (1 audiorecording), and printed material.
This series is organized by subseries, then alphabetically by folder title.
El Porteño Interview, undated
"Habla Ricardo Piglia", undated
Printed Materials, 1992-2005
"Reivindicación de la utopía: Reportaje a Ricardo Piglia y Josefina Ludmer" by Julio Ramos, undated
Transcripciones generales, 1977-1986
Various Interviews, 1995-1996
This series contains typewritten and computer print outs drafts and printed materials on other writers work on Ricardo Piglia..
Alphabetically, by folder title with the exception of the last folder that was added after initial processing.
"Between Arlt and Borges: An Interview with Ricardo Piglia" by Marina Kaplan, circa 1987-1989
" Respiração artificial: um manual de pesquisa histórica" by Eliane Marta Teixeira Lopes, 1994
Various Others Work on Piglia, 1998
Series 9: Others Work, 1970-1996
This series contains materials Piglia collected about others work.
Alphabetically, by folder title.
"Martí: La guerra desde las nubes" and Other Printed Materials by Arcadio Díaz Quiñones, 1995-1996
Various Others Work, undated
Various Others Work, circa 1970-1987
Consists of born-digital materials, including files extracted from three floppy disks (3.5"), as well as optical media, including DVDs and CDs. The floppy disks consist of about 28 digital folders and 70 digital files, dating from January 1999 to July 2003. The optical media items consist of about 13372 digital folders and 85314 digital files, dating from 1990 to 2015, and primarily consist of DVDs containing Piglia's computer backups. The majority of the files consist of Word and PDF documents containing various drafts by Piglia; notes; corrections; correspondence; academic and teaching files, including numerous files from Piglia's tenure at Princeton University; documents related to conferences, presentations, trips; and others. Also included are various JPEG files, including images of Piglia participating in the second Encuentro Nacional de Bibliotecas Populares, and black-and-white images included in a DVD labeled, "Fotos MdP. Archivo Barili + Familia Piglia."
Materials have been maintained in their original order, as received by the repository.
Originales de archivo I, 2003 July 06-2003 July 07
El laboratorio del escritor, 1999 January 14-2001 April 25
Sarmiento escritor (Word 97), 2000 December 12-2000 December 23
Backup MacBook Pro - rpiglia - 19 oct 13, circa 1990s-2015
Backup iMac G4 - Ricardo Piglia - 25-08-05, 1990 September 02-2005 August 25
R. Piglia backup - 16 feb 10, circa 1990s-2010
Piglia backup all - osg - 2/7/07, circa 1990s-2007
Piglia - 2-2-2012, circa 1990s-2012
Fotos MdP. Archivo Barili + Familia Piglia, circa 2000-2015
2º Encuentro Nacional Bibliotecas Populares, circa 2009 May
Proyecto Venus 01: Tecnologías de la amistad, circa 2003
- Scope and Contents
The papers include Ricardo Piglia's journals, research notebooks, and address books, most of which are handwritten. The papers also contain handwritten, typewritten, print out drafts, and published versions of Piglia's articles, novels, essays, opera, and film scripts. A large portion of the papers include loose page research notes and drafts. Other materials present in the papers include contracts and legal files; correspondence; academic career and teaching files; personal and professional photographs; printed materials featuring interviews or reviews about Piglia's work; and a collection of others work on Piglia.
Also included are born-digital materials, including files extracted from floppy disks and optical media, including DVDs and CDs. The floppy disks consist of about 70 digital files, dating from January 1999 to July 2003. The optical media consist of about 85314 digital files, dating from 1990 to 2015, and primarily consist of DVDs containing Piglia's various computer backups. The majority of the materials consist of files containing various drafts by Piglia; notes; corrections; correspondence; academic and teaching files, including numerous files from Piglia's tenure at Princeton University; documents related to conferences, presentations, trips; and others.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Piglia, Ricardo
Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi was an Argentine author, critic, and screenwriter. He was professor emeritus of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and the Walter S. Carpenter Professor of Language, Literature and Civilization of Spain at Princeton University.
He was born on November 24, 1941, in Adrogué, a province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1955, his family moved to Mar del Plata where he studied history at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He left for Buenos Aires to begin work in literary editorials in 1965. In 1967 he published his first book La invasión, which later received the Casa de las Américas prize. In 1975 he published his first volume of essays Nombre falso which includes an homage to Roberto Arlt (Homenaje a Roberto Arlt). Piglia's literary criticism centers around the themes of the Argentine novel, genre, fiction, translation, Argentine political history, and the works of various writers such as Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Macedonio Fernández, Leopoldo Lugones, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and Horacio Quiroga.
Piglia's essays and novels — which include Respiración artificial (1980) and Blanco nocturno (2010) — have been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Portuguese. Several of his novels, including Plata quemada (1997) were adapted as films. His novel La ciudad ausente (1992) was adapted as an opera and premiered in the Teatro Colón in 1995. He also wrote several screenplays including Foolish Heart (1998), Plata quemada (2000), and El astillero (1999).
Piglia kept a journal for most of his life and published various autobiographical volumes under the name of his alter ego, Emilio Renzi: Los años de formación (1957-1967) in 2015; Los años felices (1968-1975), in 2016; and Un día en la vida, in 2017.
He taught at the Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1990 to 2000. Prior to joining Princeton's faculty he taught at the University of California at San Diego, University of California at Davis, and Harvard University. He first arrived to Princeton as a visiting fellow in the Humanities Council in 1986-1987; and was a frequent visiting professor prior to joining the Princeton University faculty in 2001. During his teaching career at Princeton he taught courses on Argentine literature, the detective genre, Jorge Luis Borges, Macedonio Fernández, Juan José Saer, and Rodolfo Walsh. He retired from Princeton in 2011.
Piglia received numerous awards, including the Premio Casa de las Américas (1967), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989), Premio Planeta (1997), Premio internacional de novela Rómulo Gallegos (2011), and Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras (2005), the Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso (2005). In 2014 he won the Diamond Konex Award.
He died in Buenos Aires on January 6, 2017 at the age of 75.
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Guillermo Schavelzon (Ricardo Piglia's literary agent) in 2015 (AM 2016-35; AM 2017.144). This collection was purchased in part with funds provided by the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS).
- Appraisal
Non-archival printed materials and administrative files relating to personnel matters were removed from the 2018 processing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez with the assistance of Isabella Litke, Julia English, Matthew Oakland, Fiona Bell, and Danielle Vuong on January 2018. Finding aid written by Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez in January 2018.
This collection was updated with new materials by Armando Suárez on January 2020.
The born-digital materials in this collection have been processed according to Princeton University Library's Born-Digital Processing Workflows. For more information on the workflow, please read our full Born-Digital Processing Information Note.
Audiovisual materials from this collection were digitized in 2017.
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Open for research.
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- Credit this material:
Ricardo Piglia Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/3x816q268
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Boxes B-001108 to B-001176, L-000023, P-000099 to P-000100
- Subject Terms:
- Authors, Argentine
Authors, Latin American -- 20th century -- Interviews.
Latin American literature -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Audiocassettes -- 20th century.
Born digital.
Correspondence -- 20th century
Interviews -- 20th century.
photographs -- 20th century. - Names:
- Borges, Jorge Luís (1899-1986)