Entre estética y política: Ideas de una literatura mundial en la correspondencia Unseld − Paz

Abstract

How is world literature shaped by publishing house politics? The present article deals with this question by examining the relationship between Octavio Paz and Siegfried Unseld in the context of the boom of Latin-American literature furthered by the Suhrkamp Verlag publishing house. Contemporary documents from the Siegfried Unseld Archive (German Literature Archives (DLA) Marbach) were evaluated for the first time and provide information about a conglomerate of aesthetic projections, political hopes and economic calculations, all of which consolidated to form the publisher’s selection criterion of "world literature".

Keywords

• latin america
• octavio paz
• siegfried unseld
• suhrkamp
• world literature