Martín Fierro (magazine)
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Martín Fierro was an Argentine
literary magazine which appeared from February 1924 to 1927. It was founded by Evar Méndez (its director), José B. Cairola, Leónidas Campbell, H. Carambat, Luis L. Franco, Oliverio Girondo
, Ernesto Palacio
, Pablo Rojas Paz, and Gastón O. Talamón, and reached a circulation of 20,000.
Several major writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges
, contributed poems and short articles. Further "sympathizers" were Pedro Figari
, Raúl González Tuñón, Eduardo González Lanuza
, Leopoldo Marechal
, Xul Solar
, among others, as listed in # "12 and 13". It also published texts by Mario Bravo
, Fernando Fader
, Macedonio Fernández
, Santiago Ganduglia, Samuel Glusberg, Norah Lange
, Leopoldo Lugones
, Roberto Mariani, Ricardo Molinari
, Conrado Nalé Roxlo
, Nicolás Olivari, Horacio A. Rega Molina
and Ricardo Rojas
. Illustrator Lino Palacio was one of several contributors to the graphic design of the magazine.
Martín Fierro inherited its name from a previous short-lived magazine (1919), also directed by Méndez, more committed to social and political issues, and from an anarchist magazine in which Macedonio Fernández
had published poems in 1904. The magazine was named after Martín Fierro
, the gaucho
outlaw whose story constitutes Argentina's national poem, written by José Hernández. The 1924–1927 incarnation took a different, more "art-for-art's sake" approach. It was often linked to the Florida group
, sometimes called Martín Fierro group even though some Boedo group writers also contributed to its pages. One of them, Roberto Mariani, started within Martín Fierro a debate on political engagement. Arturo Cancela
suggested in a letter to Martín Fierro that both sides merge under the common name of "Schools of Floredo street", and to name Manuel Gálvez
as president, as he lived in Pueyrredón street, equidistant from both groups.
Martín Fierro showcased Ramón Gómez de la Serna
's work and Emilio Pettoruti
and Arthur Honegger
's avant garde art, attacked writer Leopoldo Lugones
as an icon of the past, and also attacked the attempt of Spanish
magazine La Gaceta Literaria of "setting in Madrid
the intellectual meridian of Hispanoamerica," that is, claiming Spanish hegemony over Latin America
n intellectual culture.
One of Martín Fierros distinguishing features was its fake obituaries, making fun of everybody, both Boedo and Florida writers, and Leopoldo Lugones himself.
The end of the publication was apparently decided by Méndez to avoid putting the magazine at the service of Hipólito Yrigoyen
's campaign for a second term as president of Argentina, as some of its collaborators demanded.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
literary magazine which appeared from February 1924 to 1927. It was founded by Evar Méndez (its director), José B. Cairola, Leónidas Campbell, H. Carambat, Luis L. Franco, Oliverio Girondo
Oliverio Girondo
Oliverio Girondo was an Argentine poet. He was born in Buenos Aires to a relatively wealthy family, enabling him from a young age to travel to Europe, where he studied in both Paris and England...
, Ernesto Palacio
Ernesto Palacio (writer)
Ernesto Palacio was an Argentine historian and part of a generation of right-wing nationalist intellectuals active from the 1920s.-Early years:...
, Pablo Rojas Paz, and Gastón O. Talamón, and reached a circulation of 20,000.
Several major writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
, contributed poems and short articles. Further "sympathizers" were Pedro Figari
Pedro Figari
Pedro Figari was a Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer, and politician. Although he did not begin the practice until his later years, he is best known as an early modernist painter who emphasized capturing the every-day aspects of life in his work...
, Raúl González Tuñón, Eduardo González Lanuza
Eduardo González Lanuza
Eduardo González Lanuza was an Argentine poet born in Santander, Spain. One of his best known work is "Poem for Being Recorded in a Phonograph Disc"...
, Leopoldo Marechal
Leopoldo Marechal
Leopoldo Marechal was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.- Biographical notes :...
, Xul Solar
Xul Solar
Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari , Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages.-Biography:...
, among others, as listed in # "12 and 13". It also published texts by Mario Bravo
Mario Bravo
Mario Bravo was an Argentine politician and writer.-Life and times:Born in La Cocha, Tucumán Province, in 1882, Bravo enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, and earned a Law Degree in 1905 after submitting his thesis on labor legislation...
, Fernando Fader
Fernando Fader
Fernando Fader was a French-born Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school.-Life and work:Fernando Fader was born in Bordeaux, France in 1882. His father, of Prussian descent, relocated the family to Argentina in 1884, settling in the western city of Mendoza before returning to France a...
, Macedonio Fernández
Macedonio Fernandez
Macedonio Fernández was an Argentine writer, humorist, and philosopher. His writings included novels, stories, poetry, journalism, and works not easily classified. He was a mentor to Jorge Luis Borges and other avant-garde Argentine writers. Seventeen years of his correspondence with Borges was...
, Santiago Ganduglia, Samuel Glusberg, Norah Lange
Norah Lange
Norah Lange was an Argentine author, associated with the Buenos Aires avant garde of the 1920s and 1930s....
, Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Lugones Argüello was an Argentine writer and journalist.-Early life:Born in Villa de María del Río Seco, a city in Córdoba Province, in Argentina's Catholic heartland, Lugones belonged to a family of landed gentry...
, Roberto Mariani, Ricardo Molinari
Ricardo Molinari
Ricardo Eufemio Molinari was an Argentine poet. Molinari was born in Buenos Aires, and was orphaned when he was five, after which he then lived with his grandmother, Bartola Delgado de Molinari. He left his studies early to become a poet. Molinari's first work was El Imaginero...
, Conrado Nalé Roxlo
Conrado Nalé Roxlo
Conrado Nalé Roxlo was an Argentine writer, journalist and humorist, born and died in Buenos Aires. He was author of poetry, plays, film scripts and pastiches in prose, and also the director of two humor magazines: Don Goyo and Esculapión.In 1945 he won the National Prize of Theatre for his play...
, Nicolás Olivari, Horacio A. Rega Molina
Horacio A. Rega Molina
Horacio Rega Molina was an award-winning Argentine writer and poet.Rega Molina was born in 1899 in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina....
and Ricardo Rojas
Ricardo Rojas (writer)
Ricardo Rojas was an Argentine journalist and writer. He came from one of the most influential families of the Santiago del Estero Province; his father was Absalón Rojas, who was governor of the province...
. Illustrator Lino Palacio was one of several contributors to the graphic design of the magazine.
Martín Fierro inherited its name from a previous short-lived magazine (1919), also directed by Méndez, more committed to social and political issues, and from an anarchist magazine in which Macedonio Fernández
Macedonio Fernandez
Macedonio Fernández was an Argentine writer, humorist, and philosopher. His writings included novels, stories, poetry, journalism, and works not easily classified. He was a mentor to Jorge Luis Borges and other avant-garde Argentine writers. Seventeen years of his correspondence with Borges was...
had published poems in 1904. The magazine was named after Martín Fierro
Martín Fierro
Martín Fierro is a 2,316 line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández. The poem was originally published in two parts, El Gaucho Martín Fierro and La Vuelta de Martín Fierro . The poem is, in part, a protest against the modernist tendencies of Argentine president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento...
, the gaucho
Gaucho
Gaucho is a term commonly used to describe residents of the South American pampas, chacos, or Patagonian grasslands, found principally in parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Chile, and Southern Brazil...
outlaw whose story constitutes Argentina's national poem, written by José Hernández. The 1924–1927 incarnation took a different, more "art-for-art's sake" approach. It was often linked to the Florida group
Florida group
The Florida group were a Buenos Aires-based avant-garde literary group in the 1920s, known for their embrace of "art for art's sake"...
, sometimes called Martín Fierro group even though some Boedo group writers also contributed to its pages. One of them, Roberto Mariani, started within Martín Fierro a debate on political engagement. Arturo Cancela
Arturo Cancela
Arturo Cancela was an Argentine novelist and critic. He coauthored several works with Pilar de Lusarreta. He wrote:* Tres relatos porteños* Film porteño * Historia funambulesca del profesor Landormy...
suggested in a letter to Martín Fierro that both sides merge under the common name of "Schools of Floredo street", and to name Manuel Gálvez
Manuel Gálvez
Manuel Gálvez was an Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, historian and biographer....
as president, as he lived in Pueyrredón street, equidistant from both groups.
Martín Fierro showcased Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Ramón Gómez de la Serna Puig was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel....
's work and Emilio Pettoruti
Emilio Pettoruti
Emilio Pettoruti was an Argentine painter, who caused a scandal with his avant-garde cubist exhibition in 1924 in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was a city full of artistic development...
and Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
's avant garde art, attacked writer Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Lugones
Leopoldo Lugones Argüello was an Argentine writer and journalist.-Early life:Born in Villa de María del Río Seco, a city in Córdoba Province, in Argentina's Catholic heartland, Lugones belonged to a family of landed gentry...
as an icon of the past, and also attacked the attempt of Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
magazine La Gaceta Literaria of "setting in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
the intellectual meridian of Hispanoamerica," that is, claiming Spanish hegemony over Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
n intellectual culture.
One of Martín Fierros distinguishing features was its fake obituaries, making fun of everybody, both Boedo and Florida writers, and Leopoldo Lugones himself.
The end of the publication was apparently decided by Méndez to avoid putting the magazine at the service of Hipólito Yrigoyen
Hipólito Yrigoyen
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Irigoyen Alem was twice President of Argentina . His activism became the prime impetus behind the obtainment of universal suffrage in Argentina in 1912...
's campaign for a second term as president of Argentina, as some of its collaborators demanded.
Sources
- El periódico Martín Fierro, Ed. Galerna, Buenos Aires, 1968. With an introduction by Adolfo Prieto, ed.