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A fresh look at the Argentine novelist Marechal emphasises his subversive approach in his novels to the Peronist politics of his time. Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Marechal as a Christian apologist, arguing instead that Marechal's `metaphysical' novels are really metafictional, ludic exercises informed by ironic scepticism.Adán Buenosayres (1948) inverts the Christian-Platonist narrative of redemption through the Logos; in El Banquete de Severo Arcángelo (1965) Marechal, tongue firmly in cheek, leads his readers on a metaphysical wild-goose chase; and in Megafón, o la guerra (1970) he finally lays apocalypticism to rest. The close readings of his novels presented in this book help to lay the theoretical groundwork underpinning Marechal's reinscription incontemporary Argentine culture.

Collection consists of: letter, dated 16 February 1861, from Norman Hall at Fort Sumter to Union Army Major General G. Gibson regarding "estimate for funds required in the subsistence dept. at this port" and emphasizing the importance of paying for the provisions due to the stringent financial situation of the person furnishing them, and stating "If I should lose his services I much doubt if we would be able to procure fresh provisions here"; listing, dated 21 March 1861, of commissary supplies on hand written to Major [Robert] Anderson; and acknowledging receipt, dated 23 May 1861, to Daniel [McSwiney?] explaining problems with earlier communications and expressing his intention of paying "if any way of getting it to you, can be made known to me... whatever may be at stake otherwise, we pay our honest debts."