The CLACS scholarship allowed me to know several archives of the city of Buenos Aires that were linked to the relations between literature and politics in Latin America. Because in my research proposal I study the figure of the intellectual, I found the materials of the 60s to be particularly valuable. For this purpose, I had the opportunity to talk with Liliana Heker, a member of three Argentine cultural journals of those years. Our two conversations, in fact two interviews, turned to the problems I explain in my grant application: the role of women in Latin American cultural projects in the mid-twentieth century; the literature-political dichotomy around the idea of intellectual; discussions about the idea of identity; etc. I think this was a remarkable finding, since Heker was an active participant of the Argentine cultural movement of the middle of the last century. For this reason, the fact of having had the opportunity to recreate, first hand, the reality of those years, has been a valuable point. It is also necessary to mention the possibility I had of coming into contact with Argentine researchers who dedicate their work to cultural magazines and their links with intellectual figures. Thus, I could find some virtual platforms that make an important number of Argentine magazines accessible. Finally, I think it has been a valuable experience, because I have been able to verify some recurring and topical lines through which it is possible to consolidate a future work on the Latin American intellectual.



