CELOS Y ENVIDIA: ARCHIVOS DEL AFECTO. LA POLÉMICA CORRESPONDENCIA ENTRE CÉSAR MORO Y VICENTE HUIDOBRO

Abstract

In this article, I address a reading of this known polemic between Moro and Huidobro (1935-1936) and the impact it has had in Chilean literary history and criticism. Taking as a point of departure the absence of some archives to perform this research of the conflictive correspondence between poets César Moro (Perú1893-1948) and Vicente Huidobro (Chile1903-1956). Therefore, reading this polemic will show how affect makes possible other possible readings of post Avant Garde from this episode between two Latin American poets linked to French Surrealism. These affects produce not only a materiality but also a way of reading this distinct production in the context of Chilean and Peruvian post Avant Garde poetry. It deals with the ways in which some poets' alliances work not only from friendship and intellectual associations but also from envy and conflict, known as negative affects or "ugly feelings" (Sianne Ngai). Therefore, I propose to read an emotion's archive, as an analytic category and as a way of knowledge (Sarah Ahmed).