title: H. A. Murena
text: # H. A. Murena
  
  Héctor Alberto Álvarez (1923–1975), better known under his pen name of H. A. Murena, was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He wrote over twenty books on various topics, and was an important disseminator of German thought into the Spanish-speaking world. He is perhaps best remembered for Las Leyes de la Noche (1958), translated into English as The Laws of the Night. In addition to his books, Murena was a contributor to the Argentinian literary review Sur, and to Argentinian newspaper La Nación.
  
  Murena was married to Argentine author Sara Gallardo from 1970 until his death in 1975.
  
  ## Works
  
  * First Testament (Primer testamento), 1946
  * Fragments of the secret annals (Fragmentos de los anales secretos), 1948
  * The fate of the bodies ( La fatalidad de los cuerpos), 1955
  * Homo Atomicus (Homo atómicus), 1962
  * Essays on subversion (Ensayos sobre subversión), 1962
  * The original sin of America (El pecado original de América), 1965
  * The secret name (El nombre secreto), 1969
  * Epitalámica, 1969
  * The prison of the mind (La cárcel de la mente), 1971
  * Metaphor and the sacred (La metáfora y lo sagrado), 1973
  