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INVENTORY OF THE ENRIQUE LIHN PAPERS,
1941-1988
990050
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Title: Enrique Lihn
papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1988
Collection number: 990050
Creator:
Lihn,
Enrique
Extent:
30 linear feet
(62 boxes, 2 flat file folders)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
Abstract: Chilean poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. Papers
include Lihn's correspondence with poets, writers, publishers, artists,
critics, and friends and family. His notebooks contain drafts of his writings,
drawings, and notes. Other files hold research and lecture notes, drawings and
collages, clippings and ephemera, as well as manuscripts by others. Included
are some papers of the Chilean painter Pablo Burchard collected and maintained
by Lihn.
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Language: Collection material is in
Spanish
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Enrique Lihn papers, 1941-1988, Research Library, The Getty Research
Institute, Accession no. 990050
Acquired in 1999.
Processed and described by Rheim Alkadhi. Original arrangement,
while occasionally puzzling, has for the most part been maintained.
Chilean poet, artist and critic. Enrique Lihn was born in Santiago de Chile in
1929. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, first painting, then literature, and published his first book
of poetry,
Nada se escurre in 1949. He became a well-known poet, playwright, and novelist in Latin America. Though published in the United States, he
remained relatively unknown to English readers. He taught Latin
American literature at the University of Chile, and died in 1988, weeks after completing his last book,
Diario de Muerto.
Scope and Content of the Collection
Papers include correspondence with poets, literary writers and
journalists, publishers, artists, critics, and family and friends. Lihn's writing, teaching, and friendships with writers
and artists are documented in research and
lecture notes; clippings, offprints and other printed
matter; drafts of poems, lectures, essays; publications and photocopies of
publications. Approximately 100 notebooks contain transcripts of interviews, drafts of
poems, plays and film scripts, notes for teaching. Lihn's continued interest in visual art can be seen in the drawings
and collages he made. Also included are some of the papers of the Chilean
painter, Pablo Burchard, which were collected and maintained by Lihn.
Note: italicized numbers and letter-number combinations (eg, caja A-3)
in brackets indicate those written on some of the file folders, notebooks or
groups of papers probably by the dealer. There seem to be multiple numbering
systems, the meaning of which is not clear.
Arrangement
Organized in 14 series:
Series I. Correspondence, 1941-1988, bulk 1962-1988
Series II. Notebooks, circa 1950s-1980s
Series III. Lecture notecards, circa 1973-1987
Series IV. Manuscripts, circa 1950s-circa 1980s
Series V. Personal documents, 1961-1988
Series VI. Various papers by and about others, circa
1960s-1980s
Series VII. Papers of Pablo Burchard, circa 1937-1969
Series VIII. Various papers about Enrique Lihn
Series IX. Interview with Lihn, 1966-1987
Series X. Academia: lectures and notes, 1973-1987
Series XI. Photographs and negatives, undated
Series XII. Artworks, circa 1970s-1980s
Series XIII. Clipping, offprints and other publications,
1949-1984
Series XIV. Sound recordings, undated
Baudelaire, Charles,
1821-1867
Borges, Jorge Luis,
1899-1986
Burchard, Pablo
Dittborn,
Eugenio
Huidobro, Vicente,
1893-1948
Lihn, Enrique
Mallarmé, Stephané,
1842-1898
Mistral, Gabriela,
1889-1957
Rimbaud, Arthur,
1854-1891
Art, Latin
America
Latin American
poetry
Literature—Study and
teaching
Symbolism (Literary
movement)
Poetry
Letters (correspondence)
Carbon copies
Clippings files
Collages (visual works)
Drawings
Notebooks
Photocopies
Photographic
prints
Sound
recordings
Belli, Carlos
Germán
Bolaño, Roberto,
1953-
Cánovas, Rodrigo,
1952-
Donoso, Claudia
Escandell, Noemi,
1936-
Jodorowsky,
Alexandro
Kappatos, Regas
Kozer, José
Lastra, Pedro
Libertella, Héctor,
1945-
Marin, Germán,
1934-
Laughlin, James,
1914-
O'Hara Gonzales,
Edgar
Ortega, Julio,
1942-
Paz, Octavio,
1914-1998
Rojas, Gonzalo,
1917-
Rojas, Waldo,
1944-
Schapf,
Federico
Unger, David
Vargas Llosa, Mario,
1936-
Villegas Morales, Juan,
1934-