Sur
A Study of the Argentine Literary Journal and its Role in the Development of a Culture, 1931–1970

This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century.

John King (Author)

9780521121217, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 15 October 2009

244 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.36 kg

This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Victoria Ocampo (its founder and lifelong editor) and Jorge Luis Borges (a regular and influential contributor) feature prominently in the story, while the contributions of other major writers (including Eduardo Mallea, William Faulkner, André Breton, Virginia Woolf, Alfonso Reyes, Octavio Paz, Waldo Frank, Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene) are discussed. Politically speaking, Sur represented a certain brand of liberalism, a resistance to populism and mass culture, and an attachment to elitist values which offended against the more dominant phases of Argentine thought, from Peronism to the varied forms of nationalism, socialism and Marxism. Dr King examines the journal's roots, its development and its demise, relating it to other journals circulating at the time, and highlighting vital issues debated in its pages, such as Argentine attitudes towards fascism during the Second World War.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The cultural context
2. Sur: the early years
3. The years of consolidation, 1935–40
4. The war years
5. Sur in the years of Peronism, 1946–55
6. Sur, 1956–70: the failures of reconstruction
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]