From Journal Debate to Novelistic Form: The Case of Margarita de niebla (1927)

Abstract

A critical site that reflected cultural and ideological differences within the literary field during the 1920s, Spanish and Latin American Modernist journals traversed borders and provided a forum in which intellectuals experimented with aesthetics and debated their ideas. This article focuses on a 1926 altercation in Valoraciones (La Plata 1923–27) and El Estudiante (Salamanca—Madrid 1925–26) between Mexican Jaime Torres Bodet and Spaniard Benjamín Jarnés that shows how seemingly minor exchanges actually played an important role in Modernist aesthetics both within national boundaries and across the Atlantic.