The cultural campaigns of La vida literaria through the multifaceted figure of Glusberg / Espinoza

Abstract

Samuel Glusberg (1898-1987), whose privileged pseudonym was Enrique Espinoza, was a prolific publisher, critic and writer on the literary and intellectual scene of Argentina during the 1920s. He also promoted publications and intellectual networks that reached an American dimension. La vida literaria (1928-1932) was one of the magazines under his direction where novel and famous authors of diverse aesthetics were released and central polemics of this period took place. This article analyzes the multifaceted figure of Samuel Glusberg / Enrique Espinoza in La vida literaria. There, through his roles as director, critic, editor and writer, he embodied at least three different discursive self-figurations: a) Organizer and promoter of an Americanist program b) defender of a nation without nationalism b) promoter of a “babelic national literature.”