José Mármol

José Mármol

José Mármol (1818 - 1871) was an Argentine journalist, politician, librarian, and writer of the Romantic school.

Born in Buenos Aires, he initially studied law, but abandoned his studies in favor of politics. In 1839, no sooner had he begun to make a name for himself than he was arrested for his opposition to Argentina's conservative caudillo, Juan Manuel de Rosas. He was held in irons for six days. A year and a half later, the political climate spurred him, as it had many other Argentine dissenters, to flee the country. He found passage to Montevideo on a French schooner. He was welcomed by other exiles, among them Juan Bautista Alberdi, Florencio Varela, Esteban Echeverría, Juan María Gutiérrez, and Miguel Cané. Three years later, the siege of Montevideo by Rosas's ally Manuel Oribe led Mármol to flee yet again, this time to Rio de Janeiro. Here he remained until february of 1843, at which point he boarded a ship for Chile. The ship encountered fierce storms and was eventually forced to return to Rio de Janeiro. He remained in the city another two years before returning to Montevideo, where he spent the next seven years.

The defeat of Rosas at the Battle of Caseros (1852) allowed Mármol to return to Argentina. After an exile that had lasted thirteen years, he was elected a senator and later a national deputy from the province of Buenos Aires. The secession of Buenos Aires from the Argentine Confederation prevented him from serving as plenipotentiary to Chile, a post to which he had been appointed. However, he later served as plenipotentiary to Brazil. In 1858 [ [http://www.bn.gov.ar/AC_GalDirectores.aspx { Biblioteca Nacional }] ] he became director of the Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina, until blindness forced him to retire. He died in Buenos Aires in 1871. By coincidence, his two most notable successors in the office of chief librarian, Paul Groussac and Jorge Luis Borges, also suffered from blindness in their old age.

Work

During his time in Montevideo, Mármol founded three journals, most notable among them being "La Semana", and he contributed to many others. He earned a reputation as a passionate critic of Rosas and his supporters, and the sobriquet "el verdugo poético de Rosas" ("the poetic hangman of Rosas"). Abusive political content is not absent from his work, whatever the genre. Also characteristic of Mármol are his unique descriptive sensibility and his treatment of love.

In Uruguay in 1847 he published six of what would eventually be twelve cantos of "El Peregrino" ("The Pilgrim"), a long autobiographical poem set to the rhythm of his changing fortunes, which drew heavily from Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage".

His lyric poems were collected into "Armonías" (Montevideo, 1851). In 1844 he published the first part of his semi-autobiographical Costumbrist novel "Amalia", whose second part would not appear until his return to Buenos Aires years later. In 1914, "Amalia" was adapted into the first full-length Argentine film. Mármol's works for the stage were "El Poeta" (1847) and "El Cruzado" (1851). His style shows the influence of many Romanticists, not only Byron but also Chateaubriand, José de Espronceda, and José Zorrilla.

Bibliography

*"" (1844)
*"El Peregrino" (1847)
*"El poeta" (1847)
*"Armonías" (1851)
*"El Cruzado" (1851)

Source

* [http://www.oni.escuelas.edu.ar/olimpi97/Literatura-Argentina/Autores/M%C3%A1rmol/modelo.htm Brief biography and bibliography]

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