Re: Argentine Literature
Too bad I only see Settembrini's reply now that he seems to be gone. Something in it sounds familiar, as if coming from another forum I know. Something in the tone and the inaccuracies. Manguel is Canadian but Wilcock is Argentinian. Chejfec is Venezuelan. That sort of things. Thanks anyway for some of the info, although quite a bit is heavy handed and stereotypical. The opposition of sorts between Chejfec and Fresan reminds me of a very famous polemics in the early 90's between two schools. Seems people over there still buy into that although involved writers now say there was nothing in it. It's also typical, I would say, of some argentinians to disregard the work of Fresan published after he left the country. I don't know why, because his latter work is better I feel.
This being said, maybe I'm wrong and Settembrini is not from Argentine.
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