Paula Wajsman

Paula Wajsman (26 August 1939 – 1995) was an Argentine psychologist, writer, translator, and researcher.

Paula Wajsman
Born(1939-08-26)26 August 1939
San Juan, Argentina
Died1995 (aged 55–56)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
OccupationPsychologist, poet, translator, researcher

Biography

Paula Wajsman was the youngest daughter of a Polish immigrant family. At 4 years of age, after the San Juan earthquake (15 January 1944), her family decided to move from San Juan to Buenos Aires. She studied psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, lived in France and the United States, and was a friend and adviser to the novelist Manuel Puig.

She worked as a translator (for example, of Émile Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method) and social researcher.[1] She also worked as a psychoanalyst. One of her patients was the writer and poet Osvaldo Lamborghini.[2] Her relationship with Lamborghini began as a psychotherapist, but then Lamborghini moved into her apartment. During a violent argument with Wajsman, Lamborghini threw her cat, named Vespasiana, from the eighth floor, killing it.[3]

In 1990 Wajsman published the novel Informe de París. This did not sell well, but was considered to be very influential by other writers of the decade.[4]

Cover of Punto Atrás (2012)

I do not want to do mysteries: I'm sick, I have "a few months" of life. I do not know how many. That's why I became a kind of punk (No future man) . [...] Please do not feel sorry for me: I am living, in spite of everything, one of the happiest and most fertile times of my life, even if it is in a very restricted aspect, since I do not work – I have money for I also live "a few months" – and I dedicate myself almost exclusively to writing.

— Letter from Paula Wajsman to the poet Jorge Naparstek[5]

When she died of cancer in 1995 she left an unpublished novel called Punto atrás, two books of poetry, and 60 notebooks of poems, travel stories, and a book of short stories called Crónicas e infundios that was published in 1999. Punto atrás was eventually released in 2012 by the publishing house of the University of Villa María (EDUVIM) in the Narradoras Argentinas collection, co-directed by María Teresa Andruetto.[2] Collectible texts that circulate in photocopies, from hand to hand, are known to have been cited by writers such as Angélica Gorodischer and María Teresa Andruetto in their blog about Argentine narrators.[6][7][8]

Works
  • "Polémica: Las imágenes del imperialismo (I). Una historia de fantasmas", in Lenguajes, No. 1, April 1974.
  • Informe de París. Buenos Aires, Ediciones de la Flor, 1990. ISBN 950-515-038-5.
  • Crónicas e infundios. 1999.
  • Punto atrás. EDUVIM 2012. ISBN 9789871868971.

References
  1. "Las reglas del método sociológico". WorldCat. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  2. Andruetto, María Teresa (31 July 2008). "La vida de la materia es infinita" [The Life of Matter is Infinite]. La Voz del Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  3. Peller, Diego (Summer 2008). "El indiscreto encanto de la biografía" [The Indiscreet Charm of the Biography]. Otra Parte (in Spanish) (16). Archived from the original on 13 November 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  4. Gómez, Antonio (2013). Escribir el espacio ausente: Exilio y cultura nacional en Díaz, Wajsman y Bolaño [Write in the Empty Space: Exile and National Culture in Díaz, Wajsman, and Bolaño] (in Spanish). Cuarto Propio. ISBN 9789562606578. Retrieved 5 August 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. Friera, Silvina (20 February 2012). "'Son escritoras que se encontraban olvidadas'" ['They are Writers Who were Forgotten']. Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  6. Andruetto, María Teresa (23 May 2010). "El mundo en un fueguito de leña" [The World in a Wood Stove]. La Capital (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  7. Aguirre, Osvaldo (8 August 2009). "El canon de los marginados" [The Canon of the Marginalized]. Ñ (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  8. Andruetto, María Teresa (June 2009). "Paula Wajsman – La vida de la materia es infinita" [Paula Wajsman – The Life of Matter is Infinite]. Blog de Narradoras Argentinas (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 August 2018.
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