Saul Yurkyevich. ( 11-27-1931 / 07-27-2005 )
Argentine poet, professor and literary critic. He practiced poetry and literary criticism with comparable talent, two exercises that were complementary for him, two creative treatments of the word that alternately figures or conceptualizes. Yurkievich infuses his criticism with the inventive multiform and imaginative flight that we find in his poetic production. Both his creative literature and his criticism are oriented towards avant-garde aesthetics: From Valoración de Vallejo (1958) to Del arte verbala (2002) and the revised edition of Fundadores de la Nueva Poesia Hispanoemricana (2002), through a dozen of titles Yurkievich elucidated the process of literary modernity in Latin America. In this line, his analysis and reflections on the work of Julio Cortázar, whose edition of the complete works, organized in nine volumes, take on special relevance. And this is how he expressed it in his work Julio Cortázar: Mundos y modo (1994 and revised in 2004)

He was professor emeritus at the University of Paris and also developed his teaching activity at prestigious universities in Europe and the Americas. He has been a Mellon Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a Thinker Professor at the University of Chicago.