Although this article has nothing to do with our city, I found it interesting to publish it because it tells the tragic story, once , powerful and traditional Argentine families.
Biza Baron was a wealthy man of position, the millionaire son of Wilfred and Catherine Baron Biza, owners of large estates in the province of Cordoba. From his youth dabbled in politics, supporting the radical leader Hipólito Yrigoyen, a highly unusual position in the wealthier classes, also devoted itself to literature, publishing in 1924 the controversial laughs, tears and silks, and business. He was one of the introducers of systematic cultivation of olive trees in Argentina, and organized the mining of tungsten and bismuth in the northwest. On holiday in Italy, where he had been living playboy, met in Venice to the Austrian actress Martha Rosa Rossi Hoffmann, acting under the pseudonym of Myriam Stefford. After a quick and passionate romance, August 28, 1930 married. The couple settled in Argentina, Buenos Aires alternating residence to residence "Los Cerrillos" that Baron had Biza in Alta Gracia, Cordoba. Among the peculiarities of the crazy lifestyle of the couple was the hobby of aviation Stefford, acquired a single engine, with the intention to go with it all the provinces. Before getting his brevet, Stefford and flew, one of the first women pilots in Argentina. Shortly before the first wedding anniversary on 26 August 1931, participated in an air raid when it crashed to the ground in Marayes, province of San Juan. Accounts of the accident were stained the more prickly sensation, asserting that the accident had been caused by the husband, it devoted to the memory of Stefford a colossal monument, erected in the family field. It is a concrete obelisk, 82 meters high, designed by engineer Fausto Newton, under whose base is a vaulted crypt where the remains of that, bearing the inscription Traveller, your silence pays tribute to the woman in his audacity, he wanted to get to the Eagles.
Meanwhile, the political situation Biza Baron was endangered, had supported José Félix Uriburu when it overthrew Yrigoyen despite its sympathy for the former political radical, but soon began to fight the regime of the Infamous Decade. The publication of an opposition newspaper led to the persecution and exile in Uruguay, but neither was able to operate freely there. The call for a protest strike against the governments of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil led him to prison in the country transplatino. This quest is reflected in his book Why I Became a journalistic revolution (1932) published in Montevideo by Editorial Campo. A second edition would in Argentina a year later, with several paragraphs censored.
is in jail when it completes the formalities of publication of the most famous and controversial of his works, the right to kill, a pornographic novel philosophical tradition of the Marquis de Sade. The book was covered in silver and on the cover depicted a skull and a bloody scythe. Inside was art-deco illustrations of artist Teodoro Piotti. Biza Baron did send one copy to the Vatican, the Pope with mocking words: "to let it pass your porters in order to attract your attention, so he is a relevant note of brightness in the room dark saddened to your library , I have the silver coated cover. "
the right to kill the story of Jorge Morganti, his sister Irma and her lover Cleo. The story is intentionally uneven. In it, the artificiality and exoticism weave a narrative biased by philosophical and moral ideas ranging from traditional eroticism and a new form created by the acute sensitivity of Baron Biza.
While not his best work, The Right to Kill became the most famous book Biza Baron and the "work damn" for excellence in Latin American letters.
However, the government of Justo Augustine (whom Baron had Biza called "grotesque and soft dictator" [citation needed]) confiscated in the first printing press, the full five thousand copies, and initiated a process Biza Baron against obscenity. Championed by Nestor Aparicio, managed with difficulty an acquittal, but remain in prison for political reasons. Had not been released even if, at the news of the death of Yrigoyen, rented a train, which went into mourning, to transport from Cordoba to the radicals who wish to participate in the funeral procession.
later published a second version of "The Right to Kill", in paperback and that he wanted the work to be accessible to the pockets of the workers.
Shortly after his release, he began a romantic relationship with Rosa Clotilde Sabattini, 20 years his junior, daughter of a close friend, the radical leader Amadeo Sabattini, and in 1935 married in secret with her, who was 17 years, which marked the breakup of his relationship with his father.
quit Marriage Argentina, for the young girl to continue studies in Switzerland and other European countries would be an important figure in the development of pedagogy in Argentina. In 1940 he returned home, but political persecution Peronist government led them into exile again in Montevideo. There would be born children Carlos, Jorge and Maria Cristina. Returned to Argentina at the end of that decade, in October 1950, the rift in the couple had reached such an extent that Alberto Sabattini, brother's wife, fought a duel with Baron Biza, resulting both wounded.
In the meantime, the main occupation of Baron Biza had been literature, published in 1942 Punto Final, the crudest of his works, which earned him a new trial for obscenity.
In Final Point masterfully conmbinan nihilism, eroticism and refined irony. It is his most explicit from the sexual, but not without an elegant and poetic flow that clearly distinguished the "forbidden literature." A contemporary critic, shocked by the crude style of Raul, spoke: "It is the product of a diseased brain where they come together as the most infamous, cynical scoundrel and blasphemous to write the most vile of the feathers. Only a definition for the author and his literary product: it is the work of a degenerate, in the broadest sense of the word. "
In 1953 he broke his matriminio definitely Clotilde and moved to Montevideo. When Arturo Frondizi became president called to lead in the National Education Council, and Baron Biza offered a diplomatic post in Hungary.
late 1963 published what is probably the highest point of his literary genius, the exceptional Everything was dirty. This book is more pessimistic than previous ones, in alternating paragraphs of a brutal anti-Semitism with dark reflections on the fate of mankind. Biza Baron language had become more polished from the technical, but also won in brutality. His son George (also writer) defined novel as "an absolute torrent of resentment."
On 16 August 1964, Sabattini Clotilde had set a visit with their lawyers to end legal separation proceedings. In the course of a discussion, shortly receive, Baron Biza, who had offered a glass of whiskey to the lawyers, suddenly threw the contents of another in the face of his wife. Containing hydrochloric acid, which caused very serious burns, Baron Biza fled the scene while the woman's lawyers moved to the Burns Hospital, where he was operated on the face, chest and hands. Following the complaint, the police raided his home the next day in the bedroom they found the body of Raul, who was shot in the temple. Her body rests under an olive tree, a few meters from the obelisk erected in honor of Myriam Stefford.
bequeathed to the municipality of Lomas de Zamora had a magnificent property in the area, now called Park Baron.
Both his ex-wife and her daughter Maria Cristina and her son George would commit suicide in later years.
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