Sin pan y con trabajo en la Argentina de entresiglos (sobre las escenas de iniciación a las prácticas literarias en Lucio V. Mansilla, Horacio Quiroga y Hugo Wast)

Abstract

The article proposes a brief promenade through the writers professionalization history in Argentina, by examining three autobiographical writings produced between the end of 1880 and 1930: a causerie by Lucio V. Mansilla, the notes of a travel to Paris by Horacio Quiroga and the memoirs by Hugo Wast. Such choice aims to reading a transformation process with its own inflections, juxtapositions, emergences and residues, in order to asses the relationship between literature and money through diverse work modalities such as journalism, free-lance collaboration or best-sellers writing, all of them considered as a whole and encompassed by the conceptual value of hunger and its intimate relation with the initiation scenario of a literary career.