El proyecto de Marechal en las revistas. Variaciones sobre poética y nacionalismo

Abstract

Here, I propose to study Marechal's collaborations with several magazines between 1920 and 1940. The question addressed in this article is part of a broader research project on nationalism, as a contributing factor to the divergence between Borges and Marechal’s work. Studying these magazines underlines the importance of graphic media as spaces of socialization, not only in terms of the networks they involve but also owing to their close relationship with publishers, such as those that brought out Marechal's first books. Furthermore, through these publications we can trace how Marechal's growing interest in Hispanism, as a cultural model for America, distanced him from his colleagues in Martin Fierro, with whom he had earlier undertaken the project of imagining the nation. I conclude that it is in the magazines Libra and Sol y Luna that this new variant of nationalism begins to come to the fore, and that it is in these pages that Marechal first begins to reflect on the people from a political perspective.