Trayectoria intelectual de Ricardo Rojas 1901-1917

Abstract

Ricardo Rojas’s (1901-1957) first stage of the intellectual itinerary extends from the end of the 19th century until 1917, from his first publication in Buenos Aires (a short story in Caras y Caretas, 1901) to the first volume of his founder Historia de la literature argentina. In this period, Rojas shows at least two embryonic poetics. With his articles on El País of Carlos Pellegrini and especially the ones on Libre Palabra, as well as some of his reviews –a in particular the one dedicated to Pérez Galdós’ Electra– a liberal reformism surrounding the socialists, which explains his excellent relationship with Nosotros magazine since it was founded in 1907. El país de la selva (1907), Cartas desde Europa (1907-1908), Cosmópolis (1909) Blasón de Plata (1910), La Argentinidad (1916) show some resonances, the line of nativism predominates as we advance in this way that leads into his HIstoria…, where knowledge from different fields(geology, anthropology, philology, folklore, history, etc.) can be found to merge national literature and culture.