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The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal (Hardcover)
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The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal (Hardcover)
Series: Monografias A
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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 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.
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