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Abelʹ Posse (1934-2023) - argentinskiĭ pisatelʹ i diplomat. Avtor romanov, perevedennykh na shestnadt͡satʹ i͡azykov. Roman "Raĭskie psy" (1983) byl udostoen vyssheĭ literaturnoĭ nagrady Latinskoĭ Ameriki - premii im. R. Galʹegosa. Ėto rasskaz ob otkrytii Ameriki Khristoforom Kolumbom, no Posse smotrit na dalekie sobytii͡a cherez prizmu magicheskogo realizma, vvodi͡a v tekst poėticheskie, fantasticheskie i si͡urrealisticheskie ėlementy, igru masok, iz‑pod kotorykh vygli͡adyvai͡ut lit͡sa znakovykh personazheĭ raznykh ėpokh. Avtor otkazyvaetsi͡a ot preslovutoĭ "rekonstrukt͡sii sobytiĭ", schitai͡a bolee vazhnym to, chto nikogda ne popadaet v ofit͡sialʹnye dokumenty i khroniki, sluzha istinnym dvigatelem velikikh dei͡aniĭ. Takui͡u rolʹ igrai͡ut v romane dva genialʹnykh i͡unt͡sa, soedinennykh velikoĭ li͡ubovʹi͡u, - Katolicheskie koroli Ferdinand i Izabella, bez pomoshchi kotorykh ne otkryl by novye zemli Khristofor Kolumb, iudeĭ i katolik, geroĭ i rabotorgovet͡s, prorok i alchnyĭ iskatelʹ zolota, voplotivshiĭ v sebe vse protivorechii͡a, svoĭstvennye 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.