A bad word. On an unknown controversy around Ricardo Rojas’s History of Argentine Literature

Abstract

This paper proposes the analysis of the first controversy over the History of the Argentine literature (1917-1922) of Ricardo Rojas. This controversy, unknown so far, develops between Rojas and Juan de la Cruz Puig through articles “An affront and a falsehood” and “A bad word”, published in the journal Estudios in April and May 1918 respectively. Analysis includes its protagonists and the contextual framework that it housed them in the perspective of what the critic Jorge Panesi called “hidden controversy”.