España como caleidoscopio. Observaciones de intelectuales argentinos sobre la comunidad letrada hispanoamericana, siglo XIX

Abstract

The article studies the Argentine intellectuals’ impressions on Spain sketched throughout the 19th century with the aim of unfolding the available repertoires of ideas to think about the potential conformation of a Spanish-American republic of letters. To achieve this goal, it is organized in sections that review the following chronological segments: 1. 1810-1870; 2. 1870-1898; 3. 1898; 4. Late XIX-1905. The selected voices allow us to see Spain evaluations while it was being considered - or not - to be claimed as an intellectual reference for a Latin American nation. These evaluations varied in the long term. For this reason, the notion of a kaleidoscope is used as a metaphor to indicate what nuances and accents influenced the views on Spain that were shaped over a century in Argentinian lands.