The attitude raised a few eyebrows in Buenos Aires and a relevant article was publish in the prestigious magazine Caras y caretas[1] relating the story of this promising young author.

However, Luis Franco found it difficult to coexist with the cultural apparatus and the bourgeois-style of other intellectuals in Buenos Aires, and soon -after completing his high school degree- returned to his hometown of Belén.

As a result of a personal crisis –coincidental with the military coup of general José Evaristo Uriburu in 1930- Franco dissociates himself from right wing revisionists such as Lugones and begins an audacious journey of introspection in the nature of Argentina's political past.

The result is a copious bibliography of essays where the ghost of saints and devils of Argentina's turbulent 1800s comes to life in a unique fashion, one that perhaps Franco only shares with Ezequiel Martínez Estrada.

Nelson Montes-Bradley recalls meeting the poet at Bar Savoy, a grill in the vicinity of the Congreso: “He was often by himself, writing on a Gloria notebook with his navy blue bic ball-pen”.