Macedonio Fernández
Macedonio Fernández ( born June 1, 1874 in Buenos Aires, † February 10, 1952 ) was an Argentine writer with a diverse work from novels, short stories, essays, poems, and unclassifiable texts. As a pioneer of avant-garde he exercised great influence on the Argentine literature. Jorge Luis Borges called it in his speech at the grave a friend " to the Argentines had become a demigod ."
Life
Macedonio Fernández was a son of the landowner and officer Macedonio Fernández and his wife Rosa del Mazo Aguilar Ramos. Inspired by reading Walden or Life in the Woods (Henry David Thoreau ) tried Fernández as high school student with a group of like-minded people on an island in the Río Paraguay to live by and with nature. Before long, he broke off the experiment and returned to his school, the Colegio Nacional Central, back. In the winter of 1887/88 he began law studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires to study and this study could successfully conclude in 1897 with his thesis " De las personas ".
1898 Fernández was admitted to the bar. The following year, he married Elena de Obieta, with whom he had four children. After the death of his wife in 1920 he gave up his job as a lawyer, the children remained in the care of grandparents.
During his studies, Fernández was a freelancer by Leopoldo Lugones and its newspaper " La Montaña ". Through this work he also made the acquaintance of José Ingenieros, Juan Justo and others.
In 1921 the family returned Borges returned from Switzerland. Jorge Luis Borges wrote about the encounter with Macedonio Fernández: "Maybe the main event of my return Macedonio Fernández was. Of all the people I have met in my life - and I've met a lot of remarkable people - no one has so deep and lasting impression on me as Macedonio " Macedonio Fernández had already been friends in periods of study with Jorge Guillermo Borges Haslam, . now this friendship extended also to his son Jorge Luis Borges - then a young poet before the publication of his first book of poetry. Published in 1928 at the urging of Raúl Fernández Scalabrini Ortiz and Leopoldo Marechal No toda la de los ojos it vigilia abiertos. The next year Papeles de Recienvenido follows. In addition, there are first hints about the possible publication of the novel Museo de la Novela de la Eterna ( posthumously published in 1967 ). This novel called Macedonio Fernández himself as a " good first novel" - in contrast, there was the "last bad novel", Adriana Buenos Aires.
1947 moved Macedonio Fernández sent his son Adolfo, where he lived until his death house.
Reception
In the Argentine literature Macedonio Fernández holds a prominent position. As an important member of the Grupo Florida, he published much in the literary magazine Martín Fierro in the vanguard of Argentina.
Even in his early poetry Fernández can no longer count on Modernism and before Lugones ' " Lunario sentimental " he made outstanding contributions to the Ultraism. He influenced especially his colleagues in the common literary circle Grupo Florida.
Works
Single
- No es toda la vigilia de los ojos abiertos. Manuel Gleizer, Buenos Aires 1928.
- Papeles de Recienvenido. Cuadernos del Plata, Buenos Aires 1929.
- Una novela que Comienza. Ercilla, Santiago de Chile in 1941 ( foreword by Luis Alberto Sánchez ).
- Poemas. Guarania, México, 1953 ( foreword by Natalicio González ).
- Museo de la Novela de la Eterna. CEAL, Buenos Aires, 1967 ( Preface by Adolfo de Obieta ).
- No es toda la vigilia de los ojos abiertos y otros Escritos. CEAL, Buenos Aires, 1967 ( Preface by Adolfo de Obieta ).
- Cuadernos de todo y nada. 2nd edition Corregidor, Buenos Aires 1990.
Werkausgaben
- Adolfo de Obieta (ed.): Obras completas. Corregidor, Buenos Aires 1972 ff
In German translation
- The Museum of Eterna (first good novel ). Translated by Petra Strien. The Other library, Berlin, 2014. ISBN 978-3-8477-0350-1.