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"Castellani critical. discursive essay on war and the word transfigured" by Diego Bentivegna. Ediciones Cabiria. Buenos Aires, 2010.

Leonardo Castellani was born north of Santa Fe, more precisely in Reconquista, 16 November 1899. In the same way that the time was responsible for burying the first foundation of Don Juan de Garay in our lands, the years were powerful voice choking the original of this Jesuit priest, making his name in an empty word.

But Castellani was a prolific writer, unusual in our environment. A fearless critic, whose courage earned him exile and perhaps, forgotten.

Taking over from his most interesting intellectual vision, Diego Bentivegna approaches his work in critical Castellani. Discursive essay on war and the word transfigured, an essential book to locate the author in time and space, and confront him with his contemporaries, who praised them or ousted, according to the time and the political moment facing the country.

Bentivegna, with a management scholar of sources, shows the least known of Castellani face: his differences with Borges critical affinities with José María Rosa and Leopoldo Marechal, among others, their aesthetic tastes that put over the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez Hernández Miguel to, for example, his thoughts on the book as object, saying:

"Who does one thing, it's yours. Who makes a book? First, the author of the book, sometimes with bloody bits of your brain and your heart alive fibrils. After author, who makes a book is the printer, which gives the material body. Third, does the book publisher, who provide their capital, makes it possible for the other two workers their work, sometimes working it very little. Finally comes the bookseller, which it has deposited into your house and it will sell. The most obvious justice would ask, therefore that monetary product that cultural production was highest to lowest in this order: author, printer and book. What? Happens all the way around. "

All these features, plus an invaluable chronology and the section he calls "critical Handbook", which includes the text of the Castellani, essential for greater understanding and insight into their work, make a brief but concentrated volume is greater Under the rescue an original figure of our literature, not just in the narrative of their work recognized, but in his profile and critical essay.

Bentivegna In the pen, these fascinating texts end up being a touch reminiscent of the literary capital of an entire historical period and he, therefore, the archaeologist who unearthed the ruins, or the fisherman who brought the river to the man drowned.