José Pedroni en los años 50:

de poeta del "descontento campesino" a poeta "comunista"

Abstract

In 1943, in his anthology Poetas sociales de la Argentina, Álvaro Yunque placed the poet from Santa Fe, José José Pedroni, under the rubric of “poets of rural displeasure”; category that placed two steps before that of “communist poets”, the highest link in “social poetry”. However, the prominent visibility that Pedroni’s poetry takes on the mains journals of PCA, or linked to its orbit, in the 1950s, seems to indicate a fast upward shift towards the place of “communist poet”. In this article I investigate the Pedroni’s centrality in the framework of the literary programs that formulate, discuss and promote the writers and intellectuals of the PCA in the 50s. The public figure that Pedroni built and the expressive and thematic searches of his poetry, associated what Amaro Villanueva defines in an article about his work as the “true local color”, constituted an exemplary anchoring in those programs that, in the context of the reception of the Zhdanov’s doctrine, called to recover national traditions and promoted the “fraternal identification” with the people’s “dramas”.