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 (feminine comedienne) or comic is a person who seeks to entertainment, entertain an audience by making them laughter, laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolishly (as in slapstick), or employing prop c ...

, 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 Luis Landriscina.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 * ''Entretanto cuento'' (30th anniversary of Don Verídico, unpublished stories), Editorial Arca 1992.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 * ''Nadie entiende nada'' * '' Seawards Journey'' (2003) * ''Hay Barullo en el Resorte'', 2005, posthumous work with unpublished stories.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 20th-century 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