Leopoldo Marechal

Leopoldo Marechal ( born June 11, 1900 in Buenos Aires, † June 27, 1970 ) was an Argentine writer and educator.

Life

Marechal studied at the College of Education "Mariano Moreno " in Buenos Aires. Upon successful completion, he worked for several years at the Escuela Nacional de Belles Artes. 1944 he was appointed inspector for the school system in Greater Buenos Aires. He held this office until 1946 and assumed thereafter the chair of aesthetics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

1947 was chosen Marechal Director of the Commission for the History and Folklore. In addition to these offices Marechal was freelance contributor to various newspapers and magazines such as " La Nación ", " Sol y Luna ", " Proa ", etc.

16 days after his 70th birthday, Leopoldo Marechal died on 27 June 1970 in Buenos Aires, where he found his final resting place.

Reception

Just as a poet is Marechal with his early works, a typical representative of the Ultraism. By the time he found his own style, with which he could emerge from the shadow of Leopoldo Lugones. Thematically, an increasing interest to mystical renunciation of the world is observed. With the increasingly becoming Catholicism he resembles Francisco Luis Bernárdez in whose oeuvre a similar transformation can be made out.

With the novel Adán Buenosayres Marechal in 1948 created a significant contribution to Argentine contemporary literature. The recognition of this work by the official literary criticism but continued until well after the Second World War, since Marechal had gambled away by his admiration of Juan Perón many sympathies.

Works (selection)

  • Los Aguiluchos. In 1922.
  • El centauro. 1940.
  • Oda para el hombre y la mujer. In 1929.
  • Sonetos a Sophia. 1940.
  • Adán Buenosayres (1948 )
  • El banquete de Severo Arcangelo (1965 )
  • MegaFon o la guerra (1970 )
  • Antígona Vélez. In 1951.
  • La batalla de José Juna. In 1969.
  • Les tres caras de Venus. In 1966.
  • Las claves de Adán Buenosayres. In 1966.
  • MegaFon o la guerra. In 1970.
  • Metafísica de lo bello. , 1941.

Translation

  • Adán Buenosayres (Paris Grasset, Unesco in 1995, into French by Patrice Toulat )
  • Adán Buenosayres ( Vallecchi, Firenze 2010, into Italian by Nicola Jacchia )
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