Marcelo T. de Alvear

This book aims at following a path of tensions, analysing the forms born by the internationalization projects Argentine art and artistic avant-gardes adopted in the sixties. The author describes the conditions that paved the way for their conception, the strategies to accomplish them, the images that best suited their representation and the antagonistic and opposing discourses, which beat the rhythm of the controversies that characterized the period.

Aborda el diálogo entre los textos de viajeros extranjeros y los intelectuales locales de cada país (Argentina, Perú, Paraguay) en la conformación de sus ficciones nacionales.

"Ensayo inteligente y de prosa ágil, que busca describir las características del argentino. Los materiales provienen de la vida política, el cine, el teatro, la literatura, el tango. Podría observarse que tiende a generalizar para la totalidad del país los rasgos del habitante de la ciudad de Buenos Aires"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Looks at the life of one of the founders of Argentine Nationalism, Enrique Osés. Osés began as a Catholic and confessional journalist, who continued as a journalist and nationalist thinker and who finally stands as the leader of the most influential political movement outside the political parties of the system.