It has now been a half-century since Eduardo Mallea made a literary career out of writing about the "invisible Argentina": the individual of Creole descent who, as part of a noble and silent minority, maintains a spiritual identity with something that is profoundly "Argentine" against, on the one hand, the vulgar parvenus of capitalism and, on the other, the crass internationalists of socialism. The important thing is to persevere in a stoic conviction that genteel material poverty is preferable to the worldliness of both capital and history. Mallea was not much of a conservative ...
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