Unbridled Calling

A Biography of Alberto Gerchunoff
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-52338-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Jewish Latin America

How can a child born in the Russian Pale at the end of the 19th century become one of the most celebrated journalists in Latin America and a writer admired by Jorge Luis Borges? In this biography, Mónica Szurmuk, delves into the different aspects of the life of writer, journalist, and politician Alberto Gerchuinoff. Thoroughly researched in four different continents, this book is as much an account of the life of Alberto Gerchunoff, as an investigation into the Jewish world of the first half of the twentieth century, and the different spaces where Jewish and Latin American cultural and political life intersect.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szurmuk, Mónica

Weitere Mitwirkende

Holmes, Amanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Prologue

1 From the Pale of Settlement to Argentina 1884–1891

1 Beginning and End

2 Birth

3 Emigrating

4 The Journey

5 Moisés Ville

6 Orphanhood

7 End and Beginning

2 Between Worlds 1892–1902

1 On the Road

2 The School

3 Little Translators

4 The Proletarian Boy

5 Fin de siècle

6 Love

3 In the Cultural World of Buenos Aires 1903–1910

1 Routes

2 The Generation of Ideas

3 Marriage

4 The Jewish Gauchos

1 Celebrating the Work

2 Los gauchos judíos

3 Don Quixote in the Argentinean Countryside

4 First Readers

5 Searching for a Place 1910–1913

1 Touching the Sky

2 Tucumán in 1910

3 Buenos Aires Interlude

4 On Families and Orphans

6 Traveling with the Family 1913–1914

1 Escape

2 Back to Germany

3 Paris

4 With Marcel Proust in Paris

5 South Americans in Paris

6 Spain

7 With Valle Inclán in Toledo

8 Back Home

7 The War Years 1914–1919

1 Back Home

2 The War Years

3 Teaching

4 Politics

5 Russia Once Again

6 The End of the War

7 Political Arguments

8 Gerchunoff’s Silence

8 A Happy Country 1920–1924

1 Turning Forty

2 La Nación Again

3 The Passing of Time

4 Trop meublé

5 Return of the Teacher

6 Antisemitism, déjà-vu

7 The Hebraica

8 Pre-Christian Christianity

9 Cervantes, Once Again

10 Prizes and Prize-Winners

11 A Happy Country?

9 The Season of Singing Has Come 1925–1927

1 Fast Motion

2 Assembly in the Attic

3 Love Stories

4 Pequeñas prosas

5 The Man Who Spoke at the Sorbonne

6 Abraham in Buenos Aires

7 The Traveler’s Nostalgia

8 Awards

10 El Mundo

1 A Newspaper of His Own

11 Heinrich Heine in Buenos Aires 1927

1 Festivities in the Hebraica

2 “Enrique Heine.” El poeta de nuestra intimidad [The Poet of Our Intimacy]

3 The Painful Lot of Being Human and Jewish

4 Charming Volatility

5 Curtain Down

12 Goodbyes and New Meetings 1928–1931

1 Requiem

2 The United States on the Horizon

3 An Ethical Compass

4 The 1930s

5 Coups d’état

6 European Rapsody

13 The Writer is a Shofar 1932–1935

1 The Natural Hat of the Innate Writer

2 Baruj Spinoza and Love

3 Allegro

4 Emissary

5 Academies

6 Nostalgia for the Ghetto

14 Just the Right Word 1936–1939

1 Pen Club

2 On the Ship Alsina, en Route to PEN

3 Men Like Those Who Are Fighting in Spain

4 The Jewish Gauchos of the 1930s

5 Adagio

6 The Clinic of Doctor Mephistopheles

7 Travels and Losses: Ritornello

8 Winter in Mendoza

9 Chiaroscuro

15 The World on Edge, a Country on Edge 1940–1945

1 Home

2 From This Biblical Land …

3 Interlude with Pipe and Wine

4 The World on Edge

5 The Writer’s Mission Is to Fight for Liberty

6 A Country on Edge

7 That Decisive Alberto

8 The End of the War

9 The Nazi Crematorium in the Cinemas of Buenos Aires

16 Herald of a People with a Will for Geography 1945–1950

1 A Civilian Soldier of Liberty

2 With a Strong Arm …

3 Choosing a Place to Live Is Also Choosing a Place to Die

Epilogue

Images

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mónica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina and a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin. She is the editor of the series Latin American Literature in Transition for Cambridge University Press, and co-editor of A History of Argentine Literature.