Literatura y vida. Una lectura de Victoria Ocampo

Abstract

The relation of literature, writer and life, particularly, the way life is understood within this relation constitutes a key element to define the peculiar way of reading literature that Victoria Ocampo had. This can be seen in her essay on Emily Brontí«; though she gives priority to biography over aesthetics, Ocampo does not adopt a biographical approach nor identifies the meaning of life with that of the writer's biography since she searches the key for interpretation in natural forces such as "character" and "fate" (instead of the positivistic interaction of social and historical environment). Thus, she identifies the vital experience of nature (the moors) as the key for the writer's personality as well as her novel's, Wuthering Heights.