All my credit: Martín Fierro as account book.
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Longing and Calculation, Things and Words, Debit and Credit, Capital logic, Aesthetic and monetary symbolizationAbstract
To extend the critical productivity of Martín Fierro, I analyze the economic symbolization that superimposes, to the distortion of the standard language, the misrepresentation that monetary form provokes in the relationship between symbols and things (Shell, Esposito). From Schvartzman's hypotheses about the account book, I focus the accounting aspect and I search for the gaucho in the text as an accountant who balances goods and sorrows. Capital appears under the rural referentiality of poncho and saddle-mats, as an abstraction concretized in objects, as skipping money that speaks through the mouth of the gaucho in Hernández's literate invention. The voice of capital concentrates on the registration of loss as a political claim in 1872, in the negative accounts of El gaucho Martín Fierro, to get away from that material minutiae of dispossession (and from the settling of accounts) towards the narrative administration of debts and the affirmation of property and capital, which harmonizes La vuelta de Martín Fierro with the progress of 1879.
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