Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reading Silvina Ocampo
- 1 Silvina Ocampo for the Twenty-first Century: A Review of Recent Criticism
- 2 Re-reading Autobiografía de Irene: Writing and its Double in the Narrative of Silvina Ocampo
- 3 Sur in the 1960s: Toward a New Critical Sensibility
- 4 Reading Cruelty in Silvina Ocampo's Short Fiction: Theme, Style, and Narrative Resistance
- 5 Eros and its Archetypes in Silvina Ocampo's Later Stories
- 6 In Memory of Silvina Ocampo
- 7 Classical Reference in Silvina Ocampo's Poetry
- 8 Silvina Ocampo and Translation
- 9 The Gender-Bending Mother of “Santa Teodora”
- 10 Illicit Domains: Homage to Silvina Ocampo in Alejandra Pizarnik's Works
- Afterword: Reflections on Silvina Ocampo
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Sur in the 1960s: Toward a New Critical Sensibility
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reading Silvina Ocampo
- 1 Silvina Ocampo for the Twenty-first Century: A Review of Recent Criticism
- 2 Re-reading Autobiografía de Irene: Writing and its Double in the Narrative of Silvina Ocampo
- 3 Sur in the 1960s: Toward a New Critical Sensibility
- 4 Reading Cruelty in Silvina Ocampo's Short Fiction: Theme, Style, and Narrative Resistance
- 5 Eros and its Archetypes in Silvina Ocampo's Later Stories
- 6 In Memory of Silvina Ocampo
- 7 Classical Reference in Silvina Ocampo's Poetry
- 8 Silvina Ocampo and Translation
- 9 The Gender-Bending Mother of “Santa Teodora”
- 10 Illicit Domains: Homage to Silvina Ocampo in Alejandra Pizarnik's Works
- Afterword: Reflections on Silvina Ocampo
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Remains of Sur
In the entry for July 18, 1963, the diary Borges, that masterpiece of malicious gossip and resentment with which Adolfo Bioy Casares redeems himself from the silliness and detachment of his fiction, records an appropriate and, in many ways, telling episode:
Después del almuerzo voy a Sur, donde hay una reunión que se repite cada dos o tres años. Están Murena, Girri, Pezzoni, María Luisa Bastos, Borges, Mallea, González Lanuza y Victoria. VICTORIA: “Los he llamado para ver qué se puede hacer para dar vida a Sur.” (Yo pienso que se podría prender una estufa eléctrica.). ALGUIEN: “Hay gente que ya no colabora.” OTRO: “¿Quién?” ALGUIEN: “Algunos por causas obvias, como Martínez Estrada. Otros como Soto …” GONZALEZ LANUZA: “Porque es perezoso. Si se le pide colaborará. (“Estamos salvados,” me dirá después Borges). Se podría llamar a Martínez Estrada a un debate.” BORGES: “Yo no quiero hablar con Martínez Estrada.” GONZALEZ LANUZA: “Bueno, eso es lo que no hay que hacer. El diálogo …” BORGES: “Para discutir hay que estar de acuerdo sobre algo. Si yo quiero jugar al truco y vos al tute no podemos jugar un partido … Además, no sé por qué Sur se va a convertir en una tribuna para comunistas.” ALGUIEN: “Los debates de antes …” UN SEGUNDO: “Eran otros tiempos. Estaban Pedro [Henríquez Ureña], Amado [Alonso] …” (925)
[After lunch I go to Sur, where there is a meeting that is repeated every two or three years. Present are Murena, Girri, Pezzoni, María Luisa Bastos, Borges, Mallea, González Lanuza and Victoria. VICTORIA: “I have called you to see what can be done to give life to Sur.” (I think that one could turn on a space heater.) SOMEONE: “There are those who don't participate.” ANOTHER: “Who?” SOMEONE: “Some for obvious reasons, like Martínez Estrada. Others like Soto …” GONZALEZ LANUZA: “Because he is lazy. If you ask him he will cooperate (“We're saved,” Borges will later tell me.) One could invite Martínez Estrada to a debate.” BORGES: “I don't want to talk to Martínez Estrada.” GONZALEZ LANUZA: “Well, that is what should not be done. Dialog …” BORGES: “In order to argue one must be in agreement about something. If I want to play truco and you tute we cannot play a game … Besides, I don't know why Sur should become a forum for communists.”
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- New Readings of Silvina OcampoBeyond Fantasy, pp. 61 - 74Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016