Luis Franco (Author)

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Luis Franco , actually Luis Leopoldo Franco (born November 15, 1898 in Belén , Catamarca Province , † June 1, 1988 in Ciudadela , Gran Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine writer.

Life

Franco came from a family of landowners; he was a son of Luis Antonio Franco and his wife Balbina Acosta. After finishing school in his hometown, he went to Buenos Aires to study law. He returned home immediately after completing his studies.

Around 1919 Franco completed his military service, which he “... mostly spent in the punishment cell”. Subsequently, Franco lived and worked as a farmer for many years. During this time he was offered teaching positions at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1948 and again in 1956 , which he refused both times.

Luis Franco spent the last years of his life in a nursing home in Ciudad (Buenos Aires). He died completely penniless on June 1, 1988 at the age of 89, where he found his final resting place.

reception

Franco's multi-layered work is yet to be discovered. According to Federico de Onís, his poetry is characterized by “freshness and vital abundance” and suggests a certain closeness to Virgil , but also to Albert Samain . Colleagues, especially Leopoldo Lugones and Enrique Banchs , praised traditionalism in his verses.

With the first of his three anthologies - Suma (1938) - Franco pursued an anthemic mood that is reminiscent of Walt Whitman .

With his works on José María Paz , Juan Manuel de Rosas a . a. shows Franco his skills as a historiographer . His autobiography is also written in this style and is considered a sharp reckoning with Peronism .

Honors

  • 1915 Premio Tucumán
  • 1941 Premio Nacional de Literatura

Works (selection)

Autobiography
  • Biografía patria . 1958.
stories
  • Cuentos orejanos . 1968.
  • Guitarra adentro y otros cuentos . 1971.
Essays
  • Los hijos de Llastay . 1926
  • America inicial . 1931.
  • Hudson a caballo . 1956.
  • Sarmiento y Martí . 1958.
  • Revisión de los griegos . 1960.
Poetry
  • Pan. Poesías. 1937-1947 . Buenos Aires 1948.
  • Coplas de pueblos . 1927.
  • Los trabajos y los días . 1928.
  • Nocturnos . 1932.
  • Canciones . 1942.
Non-fiction
  • El general Paz y los dos caudillajes . 1934.
  • El otro Rosas . Buenos Aires 1945.
  • Antes y después de Caseros . 1954.

literature

  • César Aira: Diccionario de Autores Latinoamericanos . Editorial Emecé, Buenos Aires 2001, ISBN 950-04-2205-0 .
  • Aida Cometta Manzoni: Luis Franco. El escritor ignorado . In: Revista Nacional de Cultura , vol. 46 (1984), issue 2, pp. 26-38, ISSN  0035-0230
  • Beatriz Correas: Luis Franco . Editorial Culturales Argentinas, Buenos Aires 1962.
  • Carlos Penelas: Conversaciones con Luis Franco (Retratos; Vol. 2). Editorial Torres Aguëro, Buenos Aires 1991, ISBN 950-549-213-8 .
  • Dieter Reichardt (Ed.): Author Lexicon Latin America . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 978-3-518-40485-0 , pp. 48-49.
  • Horacio Tarcus: Cartas de una hermandad. Leopoldo Lugones, Horacio Quiroga, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Luis Franco, Samuel Glusberg . Editorial Emecé, Buenos Aires 2009, ISBN 978-950-04-3186-6 .
  • Rodolfo Vargas Aignasse: Luis Franco "El Orejano". Biografía novelada . 4th ed. Editorial Trascenddernoa, Tucumán 2008.
  • Donald D. Walsh: Spanish American Literature in 1946 . In: Hispania , Vol. 30 (1947), Issue 1, pp. 20-26, ISSN  0018-2133

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Reichardt: Authors' Lexicon Latin America , p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Franco, Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franco, Luis Leopoldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Belén , Province of Catamarca
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1988
Place of death Ciudadela , Gran Buenos Aires