Buch, Englisch, Band 183, 180 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 422 g
Reihe: Monografías a
Buch, Englisch, Band 183, 180 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 422 g
Reihe: Monografías a
ISBN: 978-1-85566-070-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
A fresh look at the Argentine novelist Marechal emphasises his subversive approach in his novels to the Peronist politics of his time.
Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Marechal as a Christian apologist, arguing instead that Marechal's `metaphysical' novels are really metafictional, ludic exercises informed by ironic scepticism.Adán Buenosayres (1948) inverts the Christian-Platonist narrative of redemption through the Logos; in El Banquete de Severo Arcángelo (1965) Marechal, tongue firmly in cheek, leads his readers on a metaphysical wild-goose chase; and in Megafón, o la guerra (1970) he finally lays apocalypticism to rest. The close readings of his novels presented in this book help to lay the theoretical groundwork underpinning Marechal's reinscription incontemporary Argentine culture.
