A young man from a middle-class family, becomes an intellectual. This man occupies a central place in the literary culture of his country (Uruguay) and, gradually, in Latin America. But he carries with him a personal drama, a mark of origin, who always tries to hide and that, however, his own writing reveals. This article explores the history (or the stories) and paths of Emir Rodríguez Monegal (1921-1985), a leading expert on Latin American literature in the twentieth century. In particular, Monegal was a privileged reader, since the 40's, of Jorge Luis Borges works, whose writing was crucial to the self-understanding of Monegal's own personality.
Emir Rodríguez Monegal; biography; Literature; History.