The truly and the posible: The polemic between Borges and Mallea in the sur first years

Abstract

This essay reads the fictional and critical texts published by Jorge Luis Borges and Eduardo Mallea during Revista Sur’s early years. (Revista Sur was founded by Victoria Ocampo and had a crucial part in the constitution of Argentine’s literary field during the 20th century’s first half, apart from being the ideal space for the Latinamerican’s most important intelectual interventions and disputes). The goal is to examine the paradigms that these two authors stablish among the struggles for the poetic arts’ acknowledgment in early XX’s. The analysis of the publications made by these writers between 1931 and 1944 in Sur allows to observe a meaningful divergence in the history of Argentinian and Latinamerican literature that accentuates itself as both writers consolidate their work in the literary field. Also, this work seeks to analize the first productions of two essential writers of Latinamerica’s literature.