Julio Camba, individuo y creatividad

Abstract

This biographical sketch about the historical figure of the Galician journalist Julio Camba leans in the defence of the theory that some exceptional individuals, and therefore different individuals, create their own heroic personages. Camba constructed his own personage. He made of himself a country, a nation. For that reason he wanted to feel comfortable at anywhere in the world. At the end of his life, Camba retired at a luxury hotel as if he was a “border man”, without roots, up to the limit of the established values, outside the recognized as politically correct, the society and the masses. Camba confirms the rule that the style is the man. Camba was an heroic man, that is to say, sincere and original like Thomas Carlyle asked for one and half century ago.