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Macedonio Fernández (1 June 1874 - 10 February 1952) was an Argentine writer, humorist, and philosopher. His writings included novels, stories, poetry, journalism, and works not easily classified. He was a mentor to Jorge Luis Borges and other avant-garde Argentine writers. Seventeen years of his correspondence with Borges was published in 2000. He also published poetry, including "Creía yo" ("I believed"). == Life == Macedonio (like Uruguay's Felisberto Hernández, he is commonly referred to by his first name only) was the son of Macedonio Fernández, farmer and military officer, and Rosa del Mazo Aguilar Ramos. In 1887, he enrolled in the Argentine Colegio Nacional Central. In 1891-1892, as a university student, he published in ''El Progreso'', a series of critical essays on customs and manners later included in ''Papeles antiguos''. Like his intimate friend Jorge Guillermo Borges (father of Jorge Luis Borges), he was interested in psychology and in the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. In 1897 he was granted a degree as a doctor of jurisprudence by the law faculty of the University of Buenos Aires. In this period, he wrote for ''La Montaña,'' a socialist daily directed by Leopoldo Lugones and José Ingenieros. He was a personal friend of physician, journalist, politician, and writer Juan B. Justo, with whom he maintained a correspondence. In 1898, he was admitted to the bar, and in 1899 he married Elena de Obieta, with whom he had four children (Macedonio, Adolfo, Maite, plus one) In 1904 he published some poems in a magazine called ''Martín Fierro'' (not the more famous magazine of the same name published two decades later). In 1910, he obtained the position of public prosecutor in the Juzgado Letrado de Posadas, which he held for several years. His wife died in 1920, and their children were left in the care of grandparents and aunts. Macedonio abandoned the profession of a lawyer. On the return of the Borges family from Europe in 1921, he renewed his friendship with his old friend, and also began a friendship with Jorge Luis Borges, at this time a young ultraist poet. In 1928 he published ''No toda es vigilia la de los ojos abiertos'', at the request of Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz and Leopoldo Marechal; the next year he published ''Papeles de Recienvenido.'' En 1938 he published ''"Novela de Eterna" y la Niña del dolor, la "Dulce-persona" de un amor que no fue sabido'', an anticipation of ''Museo de la Novela de la Eterna'' (published posthumously in 1967); in 1941 he published, in Chile ''Una novela que comienza'', and in 1944 a new edition of ''Papeles de Recienvenido''. In 1947, Macedonio moved into the home of his son Adolfo de Obieta, where he lived for the rest of his life. 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「Macedonio Fernández」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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