Jorge Ibargüengoitia

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born

January 22, 1928 in Guanajuato, Mexico

died

November 27, 1983

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: Las Muertas (The Dead Girls), Dos Crimenes (Two Crimes), and Los Relámpagos de Agosto (The Lightning of August). His plays include Susana y los Jóvenes and Ante varias esfinges, both dating from the 1950s. In 1955, Ibarguengoitia received a Rockefeller grant to study in New York City; five years later he received the Mexico City literary award.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,319 ratings · 60 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Dos crímenes 4.00 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Los relámpagos de agosto 3.85 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 1964 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Las Muertas 3.93 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1977 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Los Pasos De López 3.91 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	My rating:
	La ley de Herodes 4.29 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Estas Ruinas Que Ves 4.11 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Instrucciones para vivir en México 4.14 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Maten al león 4.12 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Misterios de la vida diaria 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	casa de usted y otros viajes 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1991	My rating:

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“ARTISTAS: se mueren de hambre, no se cortan las uñas y se comunican entre sí diciéndose rimas de Becquer”
― Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Estas Ruinas Que Ves

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“Una muchacha decente tiene que ver inmoralidades en el cine, porque hay cosas que es indispensable saber”
― Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Estas Ruinas Que Ves

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“Para él el trato humano es comunicación de cerebro a cerebro, esto quiere decir, entre hombres, porque ¿quién va a saber lo que tienen en la cabeza las mujeres?”
― Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Estas Ruinas Que Ves

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