Correspondence and Intellectual Work between José Enrique Rodó and Rufino Blanco Fombona

Abstract

This paper analyses the correspondence José Enrique Rodó and Rufino Blanco Fombona exchanged over two decades (1897-1916). The majority of those documents are unpublished and treasured in the José Enrique Rodó Collection in the Literary Archive of the National Library of Uruguay. The analysis of this correspondence sheds light on the impact of the letters in the genesis and development of their intellectual and literary work, that is, in the collaborative activities that these two interlocutors carried out, in spite of the distance.