Zhak Bitev

A number of talented poets, prose writers, and critics who had previously been captives of formalism and modernism entered contemporary Argentine progressive literature. These writers with a wide creative range, such as the literary critic and philosopher Aníbal Ponce, the fiction writers Raúl Lara and Álvaro Junque, the poets José Portogallo and José Pedroni, etc., had to thoroughly experience the false incarnations of idealistic thinking in order to subsequently see the profound truths of Marxist-Leninist ideology. A decisive role was played by the impetus of the ongoing events, especially the influence of the great ideas of the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 and the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. Only then were they inspired and motivated by such a bright singer of the revolution as Vladimir Mayakovsky, as well as by the notable poets of the progressive world as Paul Eluard, Pablo Neruda, Louis Aragon, and others.