A feminist pioneer, writer, and patron of the arts and literature
in Buenos Aires, Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) was a larger-than-life
personality of legendary vitality. A key protagonist in Argentina's
rise to world-class status in the arts and sciences, Ocampo
leveraged her wealth and social status to found Sur (1931-92), the
internationally influential journal of literature, culture, and
ideas. Ocampo personally invited many intellectual and artistic
celebrities to visit Buenos Aires. Most were men. Some, endowed
with egos as outsized as their reputations, tripped and fell into
sentimental imbroglios with the strong-willed and beautiful Ocampo.
In Free Women in the Pampas the ups and downs of her passionate
friendships, debates, and misunderstandings with poet Rabindranath
Tagore, philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, and the writers Pierre
Drieu de la Rochelle, Hermann von Keyserling, and Waldo Frank are
witnessed by the fictional Carmen Brey, a Galician-Spanish
immigrant whose story is skilfully interwoven with that of Ocampo.
Carmen's sympathetic but incisive gaze puts her friend Victoria
into perspective against a larger vision of Argentina. Carmen's
adventures lead her to social-justice writer Maria Rosa Oliver, the
wilder side of the 1920s literary avant-garde (and the
now-canonical authors Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, and Leopoldo
Marechal), the Mapuche people of the pampa, and a ten-year-old
Evita Ibarguren, later famous as Eva Peron. Against this broad,
inclusive backdrop, the novel vividly depicts Victoria Ocampo's
struggle with the strictures of class and gender to find her own
voice and vocation as a public intellectual.
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