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Memoirs of the family library of Alejandro E. Parada

Reading has been and continues to be an ever renewed experience and renewal that began in childhood, continued in adolescence and later continued at the university in a city, Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, in which there are numerous and important libraries.

This paper presents an approach to the figure of Luis Fortunato Iglesias based on his personal archive donated by his family members to CENDIE. Iglesias was a rural teacher for almost 20 years and developed an innovative pedagogical experience at Rural School No. 11 in Tristán Suárez, province of Buenos Aires. At that time it was a unitary school, with only one teacher and a multi-grade format. His teaching experience was the basis for the publication of several books and a long career as a lecturer, consultant, writer, civil servant and activist.

The aim of this article is to present Juan Hipólito Vieytes as editor of the Semanario de Agricultura, Industria y Comercio in relation to the context of the Bourbon reforms and the eighteenth-century press that circulated in Buenos Aires during the viceregal period. By recounting the characteristics of the porteño newspaper, its communicative proposal to change the customs of the peasants and its pedagogical strategies will be analyzed. Vieytes defended the classic scriptural form of catechism, which needed a reader mediator such as the "patriotic citizen" or the "enlightened parish priest". Meanwhile, Gabriel Antonio de Hevia y Pando, a collaborator of the Semanario, proposed to recover the orality of the popular classes to narrate from an exemplary case the good practices that Vieytes sought to spread in the viceroyalty. One of the goals of the newspaper was to change the customs of the farmers, to break with the generational transmission of knowledge so that the knowledge of the "wise Europe" could flourish in the confines of America.

Between July 18 and August 2, the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, hosted the First Latin American Cultural Meeting organized by the Municipal Cultural Center of that city. For Argentina, along with others, the writer Haroldo Conti, author of Around the Cage and Casa de las Américas Award winner in 1974 for his work Mascaró, the American Hunter, participated. Nuevo Hombre understood that Conti's contribution to Argentine literature makes him one of the most consistent intellectuals among those who strive for literature to be a testimonial task. That is why one of his editors interviewed the writer and together they rehearsed an evaluation of the Guayaquil experience.