IDesde su aparici6n en 1931, El hombre que estd solo y espera, de Rail Scalabrini Ortiz (1898-1959, ha sido un texto citado, referido y rebatido. Ha interesado a criticos literarios, ensayistas sociales, historiadores y polemistas. Al revisar algunas muestras de este gran acopio de comentarios y menciones breves, se reconoce en seguida una de las razones por las cuales el texto se da como dclave. Gran parte de su inter6s actual radica, como lo ha especificado Julio Mafud, en <>. El texto proporciona al estudioso un punto de entrada en el pensamiento sociocultural argentino de entreguerra, y < 1. Attilio Dabini hace notar que < 2 .Para entender esta cualidad tipica de su 6poca, hay que averiguar cuiles han sido los aspectos mis sefialados del ensayo. La mayor parte de los comentarios se refieren al ensayo por su valor como testimonio -acertado, equivocado o falseado-acerca del caricter porteiio y la interioridad del argentino. Mafud, por ejemplo, lo cita para condenar una falsificaci6n de la realidad nacional que se produce entre los escritores mis innovadores 1 Julio Mafud, El desarraigo argentino: clave argentina para un estudio social americano, 2." ed. (Buenos Aires: Americalee, 1959), p. 104. Descarta la obra de varios escritores contemporaneos por haberse desactualizado su visi6n del pais.
Argentina has undergone several decades of social and political turmoil since the Second World War with the rise to power of Juan Pero'n, labor strife, and the protracted battle between leftists and the government. In her examination of the social content of Argentine single‐drawing cartoons appearing in mass audience publications since the 1940s, Naomi Lindstrom focuses on the Peronist period (1946‐1955) and immediately afterward. She observes that descriptive, nonevaluative humor characterized the cartoon until the latter half of the fifties, when hrtmorists became more explicit in their criticism of social hierarchy and the distribution of power. After Pergn's demise, a new wave o f humor appeared which was indecorous and irreverant. Examples are drawn from several Argentine publications including Rico Tipo, Esto and Que'. Along with David Foster's article on Quino's Mafalda, readers have an interesting overview of Argentine cartoons during the last thirty years.
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