Quiroga y el mito del Plata

Abstract

The article offers a rereading of Horacio Quiroga’s work, particularly the one published in 1917 and 1926, in which the tension between languages and cultures present in the area of the triple frontier appears. The author points out the Quiroga’s interpellations in his writing from a paradox: “Quiroga narrates the Argentine border with Brazil and Paraguay; he tells in Spanish about the conflict of several languages (Spanish of Misiones, Portuguese, Guarani and even other indigenous languages such as Quechua), in the impure articulation of various cultures”. In development, Rocca provides elements to rethink the location of Quiroga’s literature and the tensions of the Argentine literary field, at the beginning of the 20th century, around a consecrated line of the national as the “gauchesca”.