The Argentine writer and tradition: Victoria Ocampo, Guillermo de Torre and the return of French Evil
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The aim of this paper is to reconstruct and present a cultural controversy between Spain and Argentina in the 1930s and whose main characters were Victoria Ocampo and Guillermo de Torre. After Ocampo was accused of writing in French on account of her vanity and snobbishness, Guillermo de Torre illustrated with her figure the tensions between Spain and America, specifically Argentina, based on the unity of the Castilian language and its difficult universality. On her behalf, Ocampo defended herself in what constitutes a great cultural testimony of the elites in Buenos Aires, that were in tension with the colonialist and supremacist attitude of the peninsular intellectuals.
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