The Argentine editor, writer, and photographer, who has lived in Spain for many years, who discovered Julio Cortázar and Elías Canetti, has died at the age of 91.

Irreverent, because he went against the new uses and customs of the current edition, with exceptions, which still exist. Mario Muchnik (Buenos Aires, 1931-Madrid, 2022) dedicated a large part of his work as an editor to following the recommendation of his old and dear friend Julio Cortázar regarding "the point is to believe you are a genius and get it right". One does not know if he was a publishing genius, which he was, but in most of his lists, he nailed it.

And in what a grand way. As another great editor of his lineage, Jorge Herralde, well recalled, “an editor's catalog is his DNA.”  And it stays there forever. Irreverent, in dark times. He marked an indelible line: the quality, the discovery of the authors who contributed and opened a new space to the stormy and complex field of literature.

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