Leopoldo Marechal
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Leopoldo Marechal (June 11, 1900-June 26, 1970) was an Argentine poet, novelist, and critic from Buenos Aires, best known for his philosophically-oriented novels.
Marechal's publishing career began when he was 22 years old. Los Aguiluchos contained poems written in an avant-garde style. As a young writer, Marechal belonged to the Florida group. As Marechal matured, his writing became more conservative. He became a Peronist in the 1940s.
Leopoldo Marechal was not a widely recognized figure in the Argentine literature until the 1965 reprint of his novel Adán Buenosayres, which ignited a resurgence of interest in his work. In the ensuing years, Marechal became a seminal influence in Argentine poetry and fiction, both on the merits of his work and by virtue of being a "national and popular" alternative to Jorge Luis Borges.
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[edit] Work
[edit] Books of Poetry
- Aguiluchos (1922)
- Odas para el hombre y la mujer (1929)
- El centauro (1940)
[edit] Novels
- Adán Buenosayres (1948)
- El banquete de Severo Arcángelo (1965)
- Megafón o la guerra (1970)
[edit] Trivia
- The name of the Los Abuelos de la Nada band ("The Grandparents of Nothingness") was taken from a rant contained in Marechal's "Severo Arcángelo".
[edit] Sources
- Gordon, Ambrose. "Marechal, Leopoldo." In Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century Revised Edition, ed. Leonard S. Klein (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1983)
[edit] External links
- Manuscripts in the University of Notre Dame Libraries.
- Biography (Spanish)
- Some texts by Marechal (Spanish)
- Marechal's Las herramientas de la Patria (Spanish)
