Novel
Adam Buenosayres
Adán Buenosayres
Leopoldo Marechal · 1948
Synopsis
The novel opens with the burial of Adán Buenosayres, according to The Modern Novel, then follows, over three days in April in the twenties, his journey through a transfigured Buenos Aires. The poet is accompanied there by Schultze, the astrologer, and Samuel Tesler, the philosopher; he meets Solveig Amundsen and Ruth, a Circe figure. The last two books give, in the first person, his notebook with the blue covers, an autobiography, and a journey through a dark city that parodies a descent into hell.
Context
The novel appeared on 30 August 1948 from Sudamericana; its first chapters date from 1929-1931. The first review, in the journal Sur, was very harsh, and his former avant-garde comrades ignored or rejected it; the novelist Julio Cortázar saw it, on the contrary, as an extraordinary event in Argentine letters. Pedro Orgambide attributes this silence to the author's support for Perón. A second edition appeared in 1965.
Who it is for
A long novel in Spanish, in seven books; translated into French by Patrice Toulat in 1995 and into English in 2014.
Prizes and reception
At first it went unnoticed, then was regarded by many as the foundational novel of Argentine literature, according to escritores.org.
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