Trivia

Cozarinsky was diagnosed with cancer in 1999. This motivated him to dedicate his remaining time to his writing.[1] While still in the hospital following his diagnosis he wrote the first two stories for La novia de Odessa (The Bride from Odessa). From that date on, his film work became sparse and he started publishing "all the books I had not put on paper", fiction mostly but also essays and chronicles.

Edgardo Cozarinsky was an Argentine writer and filmmaker.

During the turmoil of Argentina's Dirty War, Cozarinsky left Buenos Aires for Paris, where he concentrated on his filmmaking. He produced fiction films and "essays", mixing documentary material with personal reflections on the material. The most distinguished of these is La Guerre d'un seul homme (One Man's War, 1981), a confrontation between Ernst Jünger's wartime diaries and French newsreels of the occupation period. At a time when European television networks were willing to support such ventures, Cozarinsky was able to develop this approach in a series of original works.

In 1973 he won a literary prize for his essay on gossip as narrative device in the writings of James and Proust.

In 2005 he wrote and directed a play (Squash) and wrote a mini-opera Raptos (Raptures). In that year he also appeared on the alternative stage along with his medical doctor, in one of Vivi Tellas' "documentary theater" ventures -Cozarinsky y su médico.

He studied literature at Buenos Aires University, wrote for local and Spanish cinephile magazines, and published an early essay on author Henry James, which he developed from his university thesis - El laberinto de la apariencia (The Labyrinth of Appearance, 1964), a book which he later suppressed.

During the period 1970-1990, Cozarinsky published little. However, his sole novel from the period gained a wide audience - Vudú urbano (Urban voodoo, 1985), a mixture of fiction and essay not unlike his film work, with prologues by Susan Sontag and Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

Cozarinsky filmed in such diverse locations as Budapest, Rotterdam, Tallinn, Tangiers, Vienna, Granada, Saint Petersburg, Seville and Patagonia. Later in life, he alternated most of his time between Buenos Aires and Paris.

He wrote for the culture sections of the Argentine weeklies Primera Plana and Panorama, then he produced his first film. It was an underground feature shot on weekends over the course of a year, knowing as he did that it could not pass the local censorship of the period. It was nevertheless screened at festivals throughout Europe and the United States. Its title was already a challenge : ...(Puntos suspensivos - Dot Dot Dot).

He was best known for his Spanish-language novel Vudú urbano.