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- ↑ Samuel Beckett (12 September 2011). The Letters of Samuel Beckett. Cambridge University Press. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-0-521-86794-8 . Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- ↑ Abstract art from the Río de la Plata: Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1933-1953 (PDF). The Americas Society. 1 January 2001. ISBN 978-1-879128-27-9 . Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- ↑ Flávio Aguiar; Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos (2001). Ángel Rama: literatura e cultura na América Latina. EdUSP. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-85-314-0605-8 . Retrieved 24 August 2012.
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