How an author becomes. About the cultural contact between cities (Córdoba / Buenos Aires, 1880-1930)

Abstract

How does one build a history of publishing in the absence of a descriptive, serial or qualitative prehistory? The question characterizes the starting point of all inquiry focusing the ancient world of cordobean booklet, books and magazines; an effort strained between meager local precedents and sophisticated external stimuli. Been that the case, there is no other way than simultaneous elaboration of large maps of the evolution and successive states of that world, and bounded and intensive advances on specially representative or significant cases. Such an advance has begun to clear the instances and modalities of realization of the printed thing in the turn of the century, while throwing a light its heteronomous character. In fact, from the writing stage until the moment of the exhibition in the shopwindows in the form of book, any editorial fact that could be pointed out regarding Córdoba is as much local as porteño or European and should, consequently, be considered on scale adequate to the territoriality of each cultural contact. The making of the author, phenomenon highlighted by the relational consideration and topic of the present article, allows us to appreciate in a very clear way the postulated heteronomy.