Unbridled Calling

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.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresPrologue1 From the Pale of Settlement to Argentina 1884–18911 Beginning and End2 Birth3 Emigrating4 The Journey5 Moisés Ville6 Orphanhood7 End and Beginning2 Between Worlds 1892–19021 On the Road2 The School3 Little Translators4 The Proletarian Boy5 Fin de siècle6 Love3 In the Cultural World of Buenos Aires 1903–19101 Routes2 The Generation of Ideas3 Marriage4 The Jewish Gauchos1 Celebrating the Work2 Los gauchos judíos3 Don Quixote in the Argentinean Countryside4 First Readers5 Searching for a Place 1910–19131 Touching the Sky2 Tucumán in 19103 Buenos Aires Interlude4 On Families and Orphans6 Traveling with the Family 1913–19141 Escape2 Back to Germany3 Paris4 With Marcel Proust in Paris5 South Americans in Paris6 Spain7 With Valle Inclán in Toledo8 Back Home7 The War Years 1914–19191 Back Home2 The War Years3 Teaching4 Politics5 Russia Once Again6 The End of the War7 Political Arguments8 Gerchunoff’s Silence8 A Happy Country 1920–19241 Turning Forty2 La Nación Again3 The Passing of Time4 Trop meublé5 Return of the Teacher6 Antisemitism, déjà-vu7 The Hebraica8 Pre-Christian Christianity9 Cervantes, Once Again10 Prizes and Prize-Winners11 A Happy Country?9 The Season of Singing Has Come 1925–19271 Fast Motion2 Assembly in the Attic3 Love Stories4 Pequeñas prosas5 The Man Who Spoke at the Sorbonne6 Abraham in Buenos Aires7 The Traveler’s Nostalgia8 Awards10 El Mundo1 A Newspaper of His Own11 Heinrich Heine in Buenos Aires 19271 Festivities in the Hebraica2 “Enrique Heine.” El poeta de nuestra intimidad [The Poet of Our Intimacy]3 The Painful Lot of Being Human and Jewish4 Charming Volatility5 Curtain Down12 Goodbyes and New Meetings 1928–19311 Requiem2 The United States on the Horizon3 An Ethical Compass4 The 1930s5 Coups d’état6 European Rapsody13 The Writer is a Shofar 1932–19351 The Natural Hat of the Innate Writer2 Baruj Spinoza and Love3 Allegro4 Emissary5 Academies6 Nostalgia for the Ghetto14 Just the Right Word 1936–19391 Pen Club2 On the Ship Alsina, en Route to PEN3 Men Like Those Who Are Fighting in Spain4 The Jewish Gauchos of the 1930s5 Adagio6 The Clinic of Doctor Mephistopheles7 Travels and Losses: Ritornello8 Winter in Mendoza9 Chiaroscuro15 The World on Edge, a Country on Edge 1940–19451 Home2 From This Biblical Land …3 Interlude with Pipe and Wine4 The World on Edge5 The Writer’s Mission Is to Fight for Liberty6 A Country on Edge7 That Decisive Alberto8 The End of the War9 The Nazi Crematorium in the Cinemas of Buenos Aires16 Herald of a People with a Will for Geography 1945–19501 A Civilian Soldier of Liberty2 With a Strong Arm …3 Choosing a Place to Live Is Also Choosing a Place to DieEpilogueImagesBibliographyIndex