Leopoldo Marechal (1900-1970) began his literary career as a poet in the avant-garde scene of Buenos Aires in the 1920s and exerted a fundamental influence on Argentine poetry and fiction. He wrote more than twenty books. Norman Cheadle is associate professor of Hispanic studies at Laurentian University.
"Adam Buenosayres is one of the most outstanding anomalies of Argentinian literature and Norman Cheadle's translation is excellent and faithful. It should be in any library with an important Latin American collection." David William Foster, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University "Written between 1931 and 1948, Adam Buenosayres, newly reissued, is closest to Joyce's Ulysses in its singularity, its excessiveness, and impressive literary references, to wit, Homer, Virgil, and Cervantes. Hailed in 1949 by the young Cortazar whose or "Adam Buenosayres is one of the final classics of international modernism to reach an English-speaking audience, which will be extremely well-served by Norman Cheadle and Sheila Ethier's superlatively fluent, copiously annotated translation." Richard Can
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