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Jose Maria Rivarola Matto (1917–1998) was a writer born in Asunción, Paraguay, 18 December 1917, son of Octaviano Rivarola Bogarín and Victoriana Matto. Dramatist, narrator, essayist and journalist, he was an occasional collaborator of diverse Paraguayan magazines and journals. == Childhood and youth == He spent his childhood at the San José High School of Asunción during the time of lessons, and spent in his parents' country houses and manufactures located in Rosario, San Pedro Department, during the holidays. The house of the Rivarola Matto family was located at the Wilson Street (Eligio Ayala Street nowadays) near Antequera, in front of the San Roque's Church square. He used to go there when he sneaked out from the barracks so he could sleep comfortably and then subtly get in again at the morning. Because of that prank he was sent at his 16 years old to the Chaco during the war against Bolivia as a private. He survived the war after a year of dysentery and malaria, curing himself chewing leaves of cocaine introduced by the Bolivian prisoners. But his survival was not just to his courage, fortitude or luck, but to his writing skills. His comrades tried not expose too much of this guy that wrote passionate love letters for them to their girlfriends. He studied law and obtained the title of lawyer, but never exercised that profession. He was exiled to the Argentina during the civil war between 1946 and 1947. In Posadas he acquired a ship that he used to carry packages up the river to the now inexistent Salto del Guairá, and traveled back in boats to Rosario. Being in Posadas, in 1950, he writes "Follaje en los ojos", a novel about the confined of Alto Paraná. This novel was published in 1952 at Buenos Aires, Argentina. He returned to Asunción in 1950, during the dictatorship, and was arrested countless times for freely exposing his ideas in every journal that wanted to publish them. He was also distributor of the Argentine journal ''Clarín in Asunción'', a journal providing objective information about the local political situation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「José María Rivarola Matto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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