The Early Reception of Marcel Proust in the Space of Argentinian Cultural Journal of the Twenties

Abstract

This article analyzes Marcel Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps perdureading fenomenous, starting from its central reception in a varied archo of literary and cultural reviews in Buenos Aires by 1920. It examines how the diferent articles hace found in this novel some ways to define an emerging sensibility and to think urban masive culture. In this way, this work describes two reading keys, one sipirtualist and the other one opened to narrative experimentation. In relation to an interest in theorize, they confirm am avant-garde disposition which goes over the classical avant-garde group of Martin Fierroreview (1924-1927). Finally, this study focuses on the specific apropriation of one of Proust’s ideas, by a periferical cultural experience, in regard of European centers.

Keywords

• Recepción de Marcel Proust
• publicaciones culturales de Buenos Aires
• vanguardia y modernización cultural en la década de 1920
• historia de las ideas críticas