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Martin Fierro (magazine)
Martin Fierro was an Argentine literary magazine which appeared from February 1924 to 1927. It was founded by Evar Mendez (its director), Jose B. Cairola, Leonidas Campbell, H. Carambat, Luis L. Franco, Oliverio Girondo, Ernesto Palacio, Pablo Rojas Paz, and Gaston O. Talamon and reached a circulation of 20,000.
Several major writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges, contributed poems and short articles. Further "sympathizers" were Pedro Figari, Raul Gonzalez Tunon, Eduardo Gonzalez Lanuza, Leopoldo Marechal, among others, as listed in "12 and 13". It also published texts by Mario Bravo, Fernando Fader, Macedonio Fernandez, Santiago Ganduglia, Samuel Glusberg, Norah Lange, Leopoldo Lugones, Roberto Mariani, Ricardo Molinari, Conrado Nale Roxlo, Nicolas Olivari, Horacio A. Rega Molina and Ricardo Rojas. Lino Palacio was one of several contributors to the graphic design of the magazine.
Martin Fierro inherited its name from a previous short-lived magazine (1919), also directed by Mendez, more committed to social and political issues, and from an anarchist magazine in which Macedonio Fernandez had published poems in 1904. The magazine was named after Martin Fierro, the gaucho outlaw whose story constitutes Argentina's national poem, written by Jose Hernandez. The 1924–1927 incarnation took a different, more "art-for-art's sake" approach. It was often linked to the Florida group, sometimes called Martin Fierro group even if some of the antagonist Boedo group's writers were also contributors to its pages. One of them, Roberto Mariani, started within Martin Fierro a debate on political engagement. Arturo Cancela suggested in a letter to Martin Fierro that both sides merge under the common name of "Schools of Floredo street", and to name Manuel Galvez as president, as he lived in Pueyrredon street, equidistant from both groups.
Martin Fierro showcased Ramon Gomez de la Serna's work and Emilio Pettoruti and Arthur Honegger's avant garde art, attacked writer Leopoldo Lugones as an icon of the past, and also attacked the attempt of Spanish magazine La Gaceta Literaria of "setting in Madrid the intellectual meridian of Hispanoamerica," that is, claiming Spanish hegemony over Latin American intellectual culture.
One of Martin Fierro's distinguishing features was its fake obituaries, making fun of everybody, both Boedo and Florida writers and Leopoldo Lugones himself.
The end of the publication was apparently decided by Mendez to avoid putting the magazine at the service of Hipolito Yrigoyen's presidential campaign, as some of its collaborators demanded.
Sources
El periodico Martin Fierro, Ed. Galerna, Buenos Aires, 1968. With an introduction by Adolfo Prieto, ed.
External links
Martin Fierro's Manifesto by Oliverio Girondo
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