Victoria Ocampo : against the wind and the tide / by Doris Meyer ; with a selection of essays by Victoria Ocampo, translated by Doris Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Doris, author.

Contributor:

Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979, contributor.

Series:

Texas Pan American series.

Texas Pan American

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979.

Ocampo, Victoria.

Authors, Argentine--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Argentine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 1990.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-75912-6

OCLC:

1280944741