Victoria Ocampo - Virginia Woolf - Correspondencia
In Spanish

Victoria Ocampo and Virginia Woolf met in London in late 1934, at an exhibition by the photographer Man Ray. Woolf was already an internationally acclaimed author and Ocampo was looking to make a name for herself in the very patriarcal Argentine intellectual field.

Publisher: Rara Avis (Argentina) 2020
Pages: 152
Language: Spanish

Victoria would recount this encounter repeatedly and in different versions, shaping her own myth about the origin of that friendship: "I looked at her with admiration. She looked at me with curiosity. So much curiosity on the one hand and admiration on the other, that she immediately invited me to visit her to her house." From then on, a bond began between them that was both cultural and emotional, which was built on a rich exchange of letters: Virginia and Victoria saw each other in person only three times. Their letters, collected for the first time in this book, not only give us a glimpse of how these two writers imagine each other, through the multiple distances that separate them or how the uncertainty of war is experienced. These letters also allow us to learn about their work as editors and cultural agents: among other things, we can trace in them the decision to publish in Spanish, as early as 1936, a text as significant for the history of feminism as A Room of One's Own. Woolf's death in 1941 did not weaken the importance of the link, its resonances and its effects: twenty years later Ocampo would return to them in the essay Virginia Woolf in her diary published by Sur in 1954, and which here accompanies her correspondence. The present edition also includes some unpublished originals by both writers in facsimile version.