Julio César Castro, also known as Juceca (

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, 6 May 1928 – Ib., 11 September 2003) was a

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comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or a ...

, narrator,

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and

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. He was mainly known by his character Don Verídico, with which he developed a particular type of absurd humour tied to the rural world. His stories were also made famous in Argentina, thanks to the humorist

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.Juceca, a 21st-century Quixote
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Works

* ''Los cuentos de Don Verídico'', Editorial Arca, 1972. * ''La vuelta de Don Verídico'', Editorial Arca, 1977. * ''Entretanto cuento'' (30th anniversary of Don Verídico, unpublished stories), Editorial Arca 1992. * ''Don Verídico'', Editorial Arca 1994. * ''Don Verídico: Antología'', Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, 1995. * ''Los cuentos de Don Verídico'', Archivo General de la Nación, Centro de Difusión del Libro, 1997. -Buenos Aires- * ''Don Verídico se la cuenta'', Editorial de la Flor, 1975. * ''Más cuentos de Don Verídico'', Editorial Neo Gráfica, 1982. * ''Don Verídico: Recopilación'', Editorial Imaginador, 1996. * ''Nadie entiende nada'' * '' Seawards Journey'' (2003) * ''Hay Barullo en el Resorte'', 2005, posthumous work with unpublished stories. * ''Fofeto Fulero'' * ''El Resorte está de fiesta''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Castro, Julio Cesar Uruguayan male actors Uruguayan male short story writers Uruguayan short story writers 2003 deaths Uruguayan male comedians 1928 births Male actors from Montevideo 20th-century comedians