Victoria Ocampo : : Against the Wind and the Tide / / Doris Meyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Meyer, Doris,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

The "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house. In this first biographical study in English of "la superbe Argentine," originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo's role in introducing European and North American writers and artists to the South American public—through the pages of her review, through translations of their work, and through lecture tours and recitations. She examines Ocampo's personal relationships with some of the most illustrious writers and thinkers of this century—including José Ortega y Gasset, Rabindranath Tagore, Count Hermann Keyserling, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West, Gabriela Mistral, and many others. And she portrays an extraordinary woman who rebelled against the strictures of family and social class to become a leading personality in the fight for women's rights in Argentina and, later, a steadfast opponent of the Perón regime, for which she was sent to jail in 1953. Fifteen of Victoria Ocampo's essays, selected from her more than ten volumes of prose and translated by Doris Meyer, complement the biographical study.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- Chapter One: Embarking on a Sweet Sea -- Chapter Two: Charting the Course -- Chapter Three: Widening Horizons -- Chapter Four: Barriers and Bridges -- Chapter Five: The Eye of the Storm -- Chapter Six: Chronicles of an Adventurer -- Part II. A Selection of Essays by Victoria Ocampo -- Sarmiento's Gift -- Fani -- A King Passes By -- Maria de Maeztu -- Living History -- Adrienne Monnier -- Woman, Her Rights, and Her Responsibilities -- Virginia Woolf in My Memory -- The Forest -- Gabriela Mistral and the Nobel Prize -- The Man With the Whip -- Albert Camus -- Heroes With and Without Space Suits -- The Last Year of Pachacutec -- Women in the Academy -- Chapter Notes -- Essay Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index