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Leopoldo Marechal
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Leopoldo Marechal (June 11, 1900 June 26, 1970) was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.

Contents
1 Biographical notes 2 Work 2.1 Poetry 2.2 Novels 2.3 Drama 2.4 Essays 2.5 Translated Novels 3 Works about Leopoldo Marechal 4 Trivia 5 References 6 Sources 7 External links

Leopoldo Marechal

Biographical notes
Born in Buenos Aires into a family of French and Spanish descent, Marechal became a primary school teacher and a high school professor after obtaining his degree despite enormous economic difculties. During the 1920s he was among the poets who rallied around the movement represented by the literary journal Martn Fierro. While his rst published works of poetry, Los aguiluchos (1922) and Das como echas (1926), tended towards vanguardism, his Odas para el hombre y la mujer showed a blend of novelty and a more classical style. It is with this collection of poems that Marechal obtained his rst ofcial recognition as a poet in 1929, the Premio Municipal de Poesa of the city of Buenos Aires. He traveled to Europe for the rst time in 1926 and in Paris met important intellectuals and artists such as Picasso, Basalda and Antonio Berni. On his second visit to Paris in 1929, he settled in Montparnasse and widened his circle of friends, which now included artists Aquiles Badi, Alfredo Bigatti, Horacio Butler, Juan del Prete, Raquel Forner, Victor Pissarro and the sculptor Jos Fioravanti, who later sculpted the poet's bust in bronze. It is during this second Parisian experience that Marechal wrote the rst two chapters of his novel Adn Buenosayres, which he did not publish until 1948. Some of its protagonists are based on his friends of the Martin Fierro group, including artist Xul Solar (as the astrologer Schultze), poet Jacobo Fijman (as the philosopher Samuel Tesler), Jorge Luis Borges (as Luis Pereda) and Ral Scalabrini Ortiz (as "el petiso" Bernini). Back in Buenos Aires, Marechal married Mara Zoraida Barreiro in 1934. Their two daughters, Mara de los ngeles and Mara Magdalena, were born some years after. Marechal again obtained the First Prize of the prestigious Premio Municipal de Poesa in 1940 for his poetry book entitled Sonetos a Sophia. The poet's wife died in 1947, leaving him with two small children.
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The publication of the writer's Adn Buenosayres, considered by many as the fundamental novel of Argentine literature, did not have the expected repercussion, possibly due to the poet's open sympathies for the government of Juan Domingo Pern, the controversial populist leader greatly inuenced by his radical wife Evita. Among the novel's most ardent admirers was Julio Cortzar, who wrote a long critical study in the literary magazine Realidad in 1949.[1] Despite his and other writers' support, Marechal's novel and the rest of his monumental work remained widely ignored by many colleagues of the literary world, including Jorge Luis Borges, whose mother and sister had been imprisoned during the Peronist regime. Although the seminal inuence of his rst and subsequent novels has tended to classify him mainly as a novelist, Marechal is rst and foremost a poet of primary importance. In fact, even his rst novel, which is mainly autobiographical, is in his own words an extension of poetry: "When I wrote Adn Buenosayres I never intended it to be other than poetry. Ever since my early youth, and taking Aristotle's Poetics as my starting point, I have always believed that all literary genres are and should be types of poetry, whether epic, dramatic or lyrical." Marechal was not a widely recognized gure in Argentine literature until the 1965 reprint of Adn Buenosayres, which ignited a resurgence of interest in his work. His seminal novel has been translated into French by Patrice Toulat (Paris Grasset, Unesco 1995), into Italian by Nicola Jacchia (Vallecchi, Firenze 2010), and into English by Norman Cheadle and Sheila Ethier (McGill-Queen's University Press 2014). The poet was ofcially invited to Cuba in 1967, where he formed part of the international jury for the annual Casa de las Amricas prize for literature. Marechal has since become a fundamental inuence in Argentine poetry and ction, although he continues to be a relatively unknown gure on the international scene. Among his more well known literary disciples and friends are Argentine poets Rafael Squirru and Fernando Demara, to whom he dedicated his Heptamern's Potica and Alegropeya, respectively. Marechal's daughters have established a foundation (see External links) for the diffusion of their father's work.

Work
Poetry
Los Aguiluchos (1922) Das Como Flechas (1926) Odas para el hombre y la mujer (1929) Laberinto de amor (1936) Cinco poemas australes (1937) El centauro (1940) Sonetos a Sopha (1940) Canto de San Martn o Cantata Sanmartiniana (1950) Heptamern (1966) El poema de Robot (1966) Poema de la Fsica (posthumous publication)

Novels
Adn Buenosayres (1948) El banquete de Severo Arcngelo (1965) Megafn o la guerra (1970)
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Drama
Antgona Vlez (1965) Las tres caras de Venus, (1966) La batalla de Jos Luna, (1970) Don Juan, (1978)(posthumous publication)

Essays
Historia de la calle Corrientes, (1937) Vida de Santa Rosa de Lima, (1943) Cuaderno de navegacin, (1966)

Translated Novels
Adn Buenosayres (Paris Grasset, Unesco 1995, French translation by Patrice Toulat) Adn Buenosayres (Vallecchi, Firenze 2010, editor Claudio Ongaro Haelterman, Italian translation by Nicola Jacchia) Adn Buenosayres (English translation by Norman Cheadle. In progress.)

Works about Leopoldo Marechal

Rafael Squirru, Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, 1961. Coulson, Graciela, Marechal, la pasin metafsica, Ediciones Garca Cambeiro, Buenos Aires, 1973, 190 p. de Navascus, Javier, Adn Buenosayres: una novela total. Estudio narratolgico, Pamplona, EUNSA (Universidad de Navarra), 1992, 296 p. Krp Ulrike, Leopoldo Marechal oder die Rckkehr der Geschichte, Vervuert Verlag. Frankfurt am Main, 1995, 409 p. Krp, Ulrike, Cahiers dHistoire des Littratures Romanes Romanistische Zeitschrift fr Literaturgeschichte, Universittsverlag C. Winter Heidelberg, 21. Jahrgang, 1997, Sonderdruck, pp. 393415. Cheadle, Norman, The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal, Coleccin Tmesis. Serie A, Monografas 183. Londres: Tmesis Books, 2000. Podeur, Jean-Franois, Don Juan, de Leopoldo Marechal: du Mythe lallgorie du salut, Theatres du Monde, Universit dAvignon, Institut de Recherches Internationales sur les Arts du Spectacle, Facult des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Cahier N 3, 1993. Lojo de Beuter, Mara Rosa, La mujer simblica en la narrativa de Leopoldo Marechal, Ensayos de crtica literaria. Ao 1983. Buenos Aires: Editorial de Belgrano, 1983.

Trivia
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The name of the Los Abuelos de la Nada band ("The Grandparents of Nothingness") was taken from a rant contained in Marechal's "Severo Arcngelo".

References
1. ^ http://lamaquinadeltiempo.com/cortazar/marechal.htm

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)

External links
[1] (http://www.marechal.org.ar) (Spanish) (English) (Italian) (French) 1.htm Hacia el Adn Buenosayres - La Mquina del Tiempo (http://www.lamaquinadeltiempo.com/algode/marechal) por Jorge Lafforgue Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leopoldo_Marechal&oldid=597280905" Categories: Argentine poets Argentine novelists Argentine people of French descent People from Buenos Aires 1900 births 1970 deaths Argentine essayists Argentine dramatists and playwrights Spanish-language poets This page was last modied on 26 February 2014 at 21:30. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.

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