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Abel Posse (1934–2023) — argentynskyy pysatel y dyplomat. Avtor romanov, perevedennykh na shestnadtsat yazykov. Roman “Rayskye psy” (1983) byl udostoen vysshey lyteraturnoy nagrady Latynskoy Ameryky — premyy ym. R. Galegosa. Eto rasskaz ob otkrytyy Ameryky Khrystoforom Kolumbom, no Posse smotryt na dalekye sobytyya cherez pryzmu magycheskogo realyzma, vvodya v tekst poetycheskye, fantastycheskye y syurrealystycheskye elementy, ygru masok, yz‑pod kotorykh vyglyadyvayut lytsa znakovykh personazhey raznykh epokh. Avtor otkazyvaetsya ot preslovutoy “rekonstruktsyy sobytyy”, schytaya bolee vazhnym to, chto nykogda ne popadaet v ofytsyalnye dokumenty y khronyky, sluzha ystynnym dvygatelem velykykh deyanyy. Takuyu rol ygrayut v romane dva genyalnykh yuntsa, soedynennykh velykoy lyubovyu, — Katolycheskye koroly Ferdynand y Yzabella, bez pomoshchy kotorykh ne otkryl by novye zemly Khrystofor Kolumb, yudey y katolyk, geroy y rabotorgovets, prorok y alchnyy yskatel zolota, voplotyvshyy v sebe vse protyvorechyya, svoystvennye zapadnomu cheloveku.

Abel Posse (1934-2023) was an Argentine writer and diplomat. He is the author of novels translated into sixteen languages. The novel “Dogs of Paradise" (1983) was awarded the highest literary award in Latin America — the R. Gallegos Prize. This is a story about the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, but Posse looks at distant events through the prism of magical realism, introducing poetic, fantastic and surreal elements into the text, a game of masks from under which the faces of iconic characters from different eras peek out. The author refuses the notorious “reconstruction of events”, considering it more important that it never gets into official documents and chronicles, serving as the true engine of great deeds. This role is played in the novel by two brilliant young men united by great love — the Catholic kings Ferdinand and Isabella, without whose help Christopher Columbus, a Jew and a Catholic, a hero and a slave trader, a prophet and an avid gold seeker, who embodied all the contradictions inherent in a Westerner, would not have discovered new lands.