Molinari y Marichal among the chapters of the unpublished "Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana" of Ángel Valbuena Prat: vicissitudes of an unfinished project

Abstract

During the 40's and the 50's, Ángel Valbuena Prat (1900-1977) collected material to write a Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana he planned to edit in Gustavo Gili's publisher. Even though Valbuena's son eventually took care of project, Valbuena had left some finished chapters and other ones only drafted. After a series of difficulties which affected the project, in 1970 Valbuena recovered that material to integrate it in his last great historiographical project: Literatura castellana (1974-1979), conceived as an alternative to his famous Historia de la literatura española. The second volume was published posthumously, and, its originality consists in the studies of Latin American works and writers. The recovery of two unpublished chapters, originally conceived for the work Gili had committed to him, brings doubts about a certain looseness between the final order of the topics Valbuena planned for this second volume and the organization of the material as it appears in the edition.