Leopoldo Marechal: a unitive aesthetic study of the reception of Greek and Christian sources

Leopoldo Marechal's aesthetic is a unitive aesthetic, in which ontological beauty, artistic production, eroticism, epistemology, and mysticism converge. Aesthetics is the starting point and the golden thread from which all of Marechal's work can be read.
The intention of this study is to promote communication between the Argentine poet and a selection of Greek and Christian sources.
Among these, three levels of preference are established. The first level is the reception of Plato and Dante, who constitute the author's fundamental sources. The second level is the reception of Homer and Aristotle, in order to understand the author's philosophical and aesthetic foundations. The third level is the reception of the Bible, which constitutes the author's religious and spiritual foundation. Among these, three levels of preference are established. The first level is the reception of Plato and Dante, who constitute the author's fundamental sources. The second level is the reception of Homer and Aristotle, in order to construct Marechal's poetics. The third level is Plotinus and Isidore of Seville, for the treatment of some specific issues.
The starting point is the assumption that Marechal's writing constitutes a “philosophical poetics,” that is, a “thinking through images” that is sustained in an ontological dimension, which serves as a scaffolding or support for the poetic form. The external form is an excuse, a hook, that attracts from the outside toward a center of meaning.
This center proposes an experience that transcends the horizon of the literary. It is a philosophy that seeks to break through the limits of the rational in order to ascend to mystical experience.