La otredad en la literatura de viajes de Rubén Darío

Abstract

Several traveling books arose of the chronicle summaries sent by Ruben Dario from Europe to Buenos Aires’s La Nación; this article centers on two of them, Peregrinaciones y Parisiana, in which he expresses his perception of Paris, a city that he wished to know and possess since he was a child and that, eventually, perceived as a place of madness, sumernage, intoxication and vice, in a disenchantment process that goes from attraction to repulsion for the loved city. Nevertheless, the stay in Paris turns out to be decisive in Dario’s human and literary development, since the confrontation with the other, the others, drives him to a self-encounter that influences the construction of his own identity and his nation’s, by locating it in the contemporary map.