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The invention of the classics: nationalism, philology and cultural politics in Argentina

2004; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1356932042000246959

1469-9575

Fernando Degiovanni,

Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Halperín Donghi, Citation1999: 15–272. Unless otherwise noticed, all translations are mine. For a history of these debates, see Bertoni, Citation2001. On paradigms, agents and modes of organization of cultural politicies, see García Canclini, Citation1987: 13–61; Brunner, Citation1988: 261–313; Teixeira Coelho, Citation1997: 293–300. For a more detailed account of the Argentine Left's political and cultural activities, see Solberg, Citation1970; Gallo and Cortés Conde, Citation1987; Barrancos, Citation1990, Citation1991; Gutiérrez and Romero, Citation1995. Ricardo Rojas, La restauración nacionalista: informe sobre educación (Buenos Aires: Ministerio de Justicia e Instrucción Pública, 1909) 38–9. Emphasis mine. Rojas, 'Antología Argentina', El monitor de la educación común 466 (1911) 109–10. Emphasis added. On the concept of tradition, see Williams, Citation1977, and Hobsbawm, 1983. See José Ingenieros, 'Historia de una biblioteca,' in Ingenieros, Citation1961–62: 293; also Quesada, Citation1925: 445; Bagú, Citation1936: 160. José L. Trenti Rocamora has informed me that his analysis of the printing systems used for Rojas's series suggest that its print run was not larger than 1000 copies. Some years later, in 1903, C. Morel inaugurated the first philology course in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires. See Morel, Citation1906: 505–30. For a history of the discovery and publication of this text, see Moreno, Citation1965: 7–17; Davire de Musri, Citation1988; and Caparrós, Citation1999. For more on Groussac's opposition to leftist ideologies, see 'La educación por el folletín', La Biblioteca 18 (1897): 324. Groussac's review generated a counter‐reply from Piñero – Los escritos de Moreno y la crítica del señor Groussac (Buenos Aires: Felix Lajouane, 1897), which, at the time, provoked another intervention by Groussac – 'Escritos de Mariano Moreno (second article)', La Biblioteca 7 (1898): 268–318. In spite of his aggressive critique of Piñero, Groussac had to admit here that perhaps the 'Plan' was the work of 'one of Moreno's "terrible" and "impassioned" followers' (p. 308), 'designer of the Sociedad Patriótica and a regular customer at Mallco's café' (p. 312). The insulting tone of this second article by Groussac, director of La Biblioteca, provoked ministerial censure, since the magazine was sponsored by the state. Groussac responded by deciding to suspend his publication of the journal. See 'La desaparición de La Biblioteca', La Biblioteca 8 (1898): 244–8. It should be noted that, among other revolutionary initiatives, Moreno wrote the introduction to a partial translation of Rousseau's Social Contract. In his prologue, Rojas stated: 'It is known that Moreno, in reprinting that book and writing its introduction, attempted to begin a series of analogous publications, with the objective of serving democratic culture.… That which Moreno accomplished for the citizens of Geneva, I will do for the citizens of Buenos Aires. His work thus inaugurates our enterprise, lending to my modest attitude the prestige of its example and glory.' Doctrina: 20–2. The original edition is Mariano Moreno, Colección de arengas en el foro y escritos del doctor don Mariano Moreno (London: Pickburn, 1836), of which only Volume I appeared. See Moreno, Citation1896. In contrast with his introductory note to the volume of 'La Cultura Argentina', Ingenieros (Citation1957) recognized these facts in La evolución de las ideas argentinas, V: 74–106. On the creation of the Institute of Philology at the University of Buenos Aires, see Boletín del Instituto de Filología 1–2 (1926): 71–95, which reproduces the speeches of the dean, Ricardo Rojas, and its first director, Américo Castro. For a detailed analysis of the growing influence of the Right in Argentina's history since the mid‐1920s, see Halperín Donghi, Citation1999: 205–72.