Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal e-bog
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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 fro...
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253,01 DKK
Forlag
Tamesis Books
Udgivet
4 maj 2000
Længde
180 sider
Genrer
1KLSA
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781846150081
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.Adan Buenosayres (1948) inverts the Christian-Platonist narrative of redemption through the Logos; in El Banquete de Severo Arcangelo (1965) Marechal, tongue firmly in cheek, leads his readers on a metaphysical wild-goose chase; and in Megafon, 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.