An Excess that Impoverishes: Poetic and Political Economy in Martín Fierro
Martín Fierro's textual economy exposes progress contradictions, invisibilized by the conversion of two leaflets into a (national) book. In El gaucho Martín Fierro (1872), the composition into octosyllabic verses, due to its word saving materializes the State dispossession through language redu...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humandiades. Instituto de Letras
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/clt/article/view/7538 |
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| Sumario: | Martín Fierro's textual economy exposes progress contradictions, invisibilized by the conversion of two leaflets into a (national) book. In El gaucho Martín Fierro (1872), the composition into octosyllabic verses, due to its word saving materializes the State dispossession through language reduction; concision appears isolated in La vuelta de Martín Fierro (1879), where the moral emphasis wastes proverbial verses, insisting on civilizing virtues (prudence, obedience, industriousness) and barbaric vices (laziness, crime, inhumanity of the native people). The exemplary effort, the repetitive voices of the sons and the abjection of the indigenous tribes generate a disturbing disproportion that, despite the effect of bookish unity of the Vuelta (the Return), contradicts the strophic economy celebrated by Borges, Leumann, Martínez Estrada. The didacticism of the converted gaucho says less in spite of talking more: it conceals the violence of liberal democracy, blurred by the aesthetic moralism of the book and its readings. |
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