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The relationship between Borges and France has been revisited more than once from many perspectives. This paper does it from a novel point of view: that of the account of composition. On the one hand, this paper presents the account of composition (that is, a narrative about the writing process) as a conceptual instrument that can be used to think and perceive the literary experience in general. On the other, it seeks to show that these narratives are a productive tool to analize key aspects of the relationship between Borges and France: they let us articulate a way of viewing Borges' position in relation to the avant-gardes, which in turn enables us to trace a line covering from Borges' Ultraist origins to the much later resonance of Borges' literature and ideas in the works of the French literary group Oulipo. Incidentally, this paper also suggests a hitherto unnoticed relevant connection between “The Aleph" and Plato's Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze César Calvo's Las tres mitades de Ino M oxoj otros brujos de la Amazonia in order to rethink how the Amazonian universe (with its beliefs, myths, and knowledge) participates in the construction of Peruvian identity', assuming a notion of identity that is defined by heterogeneity. We propose a reading of Calvo's novel in the frame of Amazonian indigenism, which creates tensions with other literary formulations of the Andean utopia. The paper also looks into how the invention of an ethnographic narrator allows the intersection of diverse sociocultural universes in the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the central role played by Argentinian modernista writer Enrique Rodriguez Larreta in the vindication of the Castilian cultural heritage in early 20thcentury Argentina. As part of the wave of hispanophile sentiment produced by the Spanish-American War and the debates on identity linked to the celebration of Argentina's Independence Centenary, Larreta aims to create a new Argentinian identity of Castilian filiation based on the Spanish cultural heritage epitomized by Golden Age. This profoundly conservative aesthetic project finds expression in his successful historic novel La gloria de don Ramiro, conceived as an archaist textual simulacrum that reconstructs the historical reality of Phillip II's reign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel Perfect Preterite by Hugo Foguet appears in the map of Argentinian literature as a piece of writing that, at the moment of its publication (1983) and from the periphery of the canon, breaks apart from any expected narrative produced inland, that is, a kind of realism that presented remote, still and atavistic provincial towns. This paper analyzes Foguet's text from the notion of folly realism, coined by Eduardo Rosenzvaig in the context of the Argentinian and Latin American literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents evidence on the controversial trip of José Juan Tablada to Japan in 1900. Most scholarship studying the book of chronicles En el país del sol (1919) refers to the lack of evidence of José Juan Tablada's trip to Yokohama. Until now there was no concrete evidence to prove his travel, beyond the book mentioned and some watercolors. As a result of a search at the National Archives in San Francisco among the documents that record the arrival of travelers, I found that passenger twenty-one was, indeed, Tablada, who traveled back from Yokohama on December 5, 1900 to arrive in San Francisco on December 22 aboard the ship “America Maru". This was a crucial trip for Tablada, which marked a watershed moment in his artistic creation and reaffirmed his intellectual passion for the land of the sun. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the positions of Xavier Abril, Emilio Adolfo Westphalen, and José María Arguedas in the context of the discussions of the avant-garde, indigenismo and socialism that sought the renewal of the Peruvian imaginary between 1925 and 1940. The framework of the analysis intends to capture the complexity of the influences of José Carlos Marátegui's discourse in the debate, abandoning the contrast of the "Andean" and "West" categories and proposing a reading that emphasizes three other premises: authenticity, territoriality and modernity. In this sense, this work examines the relationship between Abril and Westphalen (1930-34), showing their image of Lima as a primitive space and a cultural wasteland in contrast to Europe and studying, among other texts, an unpublished manifesto. This paper then addresses the intellectual relationship between Westphalen and Arguedas at the end of the 1930s, showing how their representation of Lima as a hostile place was complemented by the proposal of an indigenous subject capable of the artistic modernity. This mapping of Lima's cultural scene of the time will explain how, according to these intellectuals, being primitive or modern depended on the authenticity of the artistic/intellectual pursuit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work expounds upon the connection and distinction between the works of W.H. Hudson and Jose María Arguedas, using the rhizomatic theory of Deleuze and Guattari to evaluate the power of a landscape to evoke and create memories, while at the same time instilling a sense of "being." This article explores the cognitive affect experience of shamanic culture, a theme somewhat more present in the work of Arguedas. Hudson, rather, focuses on a projection of self into nature on an individual level, as opposed to the cultural and individual dual focus of Arguedas. This paper is grounded in the idea that different states of consciousness are essential to understanding realities and immersing ourselves in a state of "being," which is poignantly shaped by the settings described by Arguedas and Hudson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a review of the papers presented in the issue that revolve around the writing of 20th century Peruvian author José María Arguedas, and discusses the need to reread the works of Arguedas as the 21st century begins. The author asserts that the 21st century's trends of globalization and transculturation make Arguedas' work, which offers and preserves glimpses into often-marginalized Quechuan and Andean cultures, increasingly relevant to the study of contemporary Latin American literature.