Victoria Ocampo in the anti-fascism: a possible reading from the second series of her book Testimonios (1941)

Abstract

We propose to analyze several writings gathered by Victoria Ocampo during the first years of the Second World War in the second series of her book Testimonios (1941). Already in her prologue the author expressed that the gathering of these writings in one volume responded to "current circumstances". We maintain as a hypothesis the existence of a key connection between “Supremacía del alma y de la sangre”, a lecture delivered in 1934 in fascist Italy, with the section called “La guerra” where she pours her reflections since 1938 from an openly antifascist position. Therefore, we understand that the treatment of these writings, put in dialogue, allows us to locate some clues about the complexity of an intellectual intervention in relation to anti-fascism that was far from being rigid and monolithic.