Resumen

PITA GONZALEZ, Alexandra. Pueblo enfermo by Alcides Arguedas or dissapointment as a problem. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2023, n.166, pp.163-190.  Epub 27-Feb-2024. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.166.2023.4779.

This paper deals with the possibilities of analyzing the production and reception of the book, Pueblo enfermo, in its different editions (1909, 1910 and 1937). Beyond the controversies unleashed by the Bolivian Alcides Arguedas for his book, we are interested here in the study of the context of creation/production and dissemination of a work. Also interested understand why Arguedas used as a prologue a letter from the Spanish Ramiro de Maetzu (1909 and 1910) and added in the warning of the third edition (1937) a part of the letter of the Uruguayan José E. Rodo. Two different visions of Latin America (one coming from regenerationism, the other from idealism).

This combination allows us to consider whether metaphor of social disease was combined with that of Latin America as a minor. For this, the diaries of Arguedas, and the letters between him and other Latin American and European intellectuals, and the letters between Rodo and Miguel de Unamuno, are used as primary sources.

Palabras llave : Alcides Arguedas; José E. Rodó; Ramiro de Maetzu; pessimism; social darwinism.