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Tribute: Leopoldo Marechal Video
Tribute: Leopoldo Marechal
Leopoldo Marechal was a poet, dramatist, novelist and essayist. His novel "Adán Buenosayres" is nowadays considered one of the most important works of the Argentinean literature. However, when he was alive, Marechal has been put aside and forgotten in this country and in foreign ones for having official positions during Peron’s government.
Aware of this situation, Marechal said: "From some years now I hear about writers "committed" and "not-committed". For me, it is a fake classification. Every writer, since being one, is already committed: committed to a religion, committed to a political-social ideology, committed to the tradition of his people, committed to an individual indifference or somnambulism, guilty or not-guilty. I confess I am only committed to New Testament, which would resolve all the economic, social, physical and metaphysical problems suffered today by men".
We remember him through a fragment of a video done by the Biblioteca Nacional in which Marechal tells how his poet call was born and reads the poem "Del amor navegante".