En zaga de tantos otros: Paul Groussac y la angustia de las influencias en el Rí­o de la Plata

Abstract

This article analyzes Paul Groussac's opinions on American [both North and Latin American] culture, condemned as a false and faulty copy of a sole original: the European canon in which the French writer authorizes his work and legitimizes himself as a literary critic in the Rí­o de la Plata. I focus on some key texts regarding the problem of beginnings in Latin American literature and the anxiety of influences which characterizes Groussac himself: his reading of Shakespeare's The Tempest, his writings in Del Plata al Niágara and his notes on Los raros and Prosas profanas by Rubén Darí­o