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Luis (Leopoldo) Franco (November 15, 1898June 1, 1988) was an autodidact, a self-made intellectual, essayist, and poet. He was the son of Luis Antonio and Balbina Acosta and lived most of his life in his native province far from the limelights of Buenos Aires and the academic world which he sincerely despised in favor of a bucolic and rural setting of his father's cattle farm in Belén. At age seventeen Franco was awarded a literary prize for his ''Oda primaveral''. Franco traveled a considerable distance to receive the award riding on a mule's back from Catamarca Province to Tucuman. The attitude raised a few eyebrows in Buenos Aires and a relevant article was publish in the prestigious magazine ''Caras y caretas''〔Caras y Caretas, 1918〕 relating the story of this promising young author. The first literary personality to open the doors to Franco was Horacio Quiroga.〔Luis Franco by Beatriz Correas. Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, 1962.〕 Quiroga would eventually introduced Franco to Leopoldo Lugones who recognized his talent and potential. Soon Franco became a recognizable name in the literary world of his time making the acquaintance of Roberto Arlt, Gabriela Mistral and Juana de Ibarbourou amongst others. However, Luis Franco found it difficult to coexist with the cultural apparatus and the bourgeois-style of other intellectuals in Buenos Aires, and soon -after completing his High School degree- returned to his hometown of Belén. In Belén, Franco resided most of his adult life doing what he loved most: working the land, reading and writing. As a result of a personal crisis –coincidental with the military coup of general José Evaristo Uriburu in 1930- Franco dissociates himself from right wing revisionists such as Lugones and begins an audacious journey of introspection in the nature of Argentina’s political past. The result is a copious bibliography of essays where the ghost of saints and devils of Argentina’s turbulent 1800’s comes to life in a unique fashion, one that perhaps Franco only shares with Ezequiel Martínez Estrada.
Soon Franco will emerge as a political writer, one seriously committed to the cause of communism. He was a Marxist of Trotskyite tendencies, co-founder of the political party known as Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) in 1982. Franco also contributed in the 1950s to the Magazine ''Estrategia'' next to relevant figures of the local Trotskyite scene such as Perelman, Gallo, Milcíades Peña and Nahuel Moreno. Very much a militant he refused to occupy posts in the university or academic world of the bourgeois which he condemned for its complicity with the system. Luis Franco worked until his very last days in Buenos Aires. Nelson Montes-Bradley recalls meeting the poet at Bar Savoy, a grill in the vicinity of the Congreso: “He was often by himself, writing on a Gloria notebook with his navy blue ''bic'' ball-pen”. According to his friend Carlos Penelas, Luis Franco died penniless on June 1, 1988 in a nursing home in Ciudadela, Buenos Aires province.〔''Diccionario de Autores Latinoamericanos''. César Aira. Editorial Emecé.〕〔''Spanish American Literature in 1946'', Donald Devenish Walsh. Hispania, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Feb., 1947), pp. 20-26. Published by: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.〕〔Olga Mingo de Hoffmann, Reviewed work(s): ''El general Paz y los dos caudillajes''. by Luis Franco. The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Aug., 1948), pp. 434-435. Published by: Duke University Press.〕〔Penelas, Carlos; ''Conversaciones con Luis Franco'' - Buenos Aires, 1991 (2ª edic.) - Encuadernado - 72p -〕 == Poetry == * ''La Flauta de caña'' Ediciones América, Buenos Aires, 1920. * ''Coplas'' Buenos Aires, 1921. * ''Libro del gay vivir'' Ediciones Babel, Buenos Aires, 1923. * ''Coplas del pueblo'' Ediciones Glaizer, Buenos Aires, 1927 * ''Nuevo mundo'' Ediciones Glaizer, Buenos Aires 1927. * ''Los trabajos y los días.'' Ediciones Babel, Buenos Aires 1928. * ''América inicial'' (1931). Book of the Year Award, Jokey Club, Buenos Aires. * ''Nocturnos'' Ediciones Babel, Buenos Aires, 1932. * ''Suma'' Ediciones Perseo, Buenos Aires, 1938. * ''Catamarca en cielo y tierra.'' Eiciones Kraft, Buenos Aires, (December . 3100 units were printed and numbered from 1 to 3100. Includes 21 Illustrations by Ernesto Ziechmann. This special edition contains the following books: ''Libro del gay vivir''; ''Coplas del pueblo''; ''Los trabajos y los días''; ''Suma''; ''Canciones''. Includes Index of Illustrations, General Index. * ''Pan'' Ediciones Suma, Buenos Aires, 1948. * ''Constelación'' Antología general. Editorial Stilcograf (1959), 228 pp. Premio Municipal de Poesía. * ''El corazón en la guitarra'', folder with drawings by Ricardo Carpani. Buenos Aires, 1963. * ''Four Poems'', folder with lithographs by Demetrio Urruchúa. Buenos Aires, 1965. * ''Poesía de Luis Franco'' Anthology. Eudeba (1965) * ''Trotsky'' Carpeta con un poema. Chajá/ Ediciones de poesía. Buenos Aires, 1967. 6 pp. * ''Guitarra'' (Teoría y práctica de la copla). Editorial Lagos. Buenos Aires, (1971) * ''Coplas del pueblo'' * ''Insurreción de poema'' Editorial Colihe-Hachette (1979) * ''El mar se embarca'' Editorial papeles de Buenos Aires. (?) * ''Luis Franco'' A selection of Luis Franco's works read by the author himself. Recorded by Discos Qualiton, LP Juglaría JQ-007. Includes the following poems: “Insondable raíz”; “Suma”; Canción del circo del mar”; “Long ago”; “Nocturno del duo inmóvil”; “Falus”; “Plenilunio”; “Mar nuestro”; El llora-sangre está llorando”; “Coplas solitas”; “El zapatero”; “Conmemoración sin pausa”; “Danza del yaguareté”; “La Cruz del Sur”; “Conjunción”; “Madre ceniza”; Indagación del hombre” and “Primavera de Alicia”. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luis Franco (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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