The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal PDF
by Norman Cheadle
Part of the Monografias A series
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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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- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:04/05/2000
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- ISBN:9780585443621
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:04/05/2000
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- ISBN:9780585443621
