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THIS appreciation of modern Argentina is particularly interesting to English readers in the stress which it lays on Franco-Argentinian cultural relationships. There is full realisation of the virility of the young Argentinians, clever but perhaps too self-reliant in that they are tending to lose contact with their European colleagues in science, applied science, art and literature. On the other hand, in a somewhat superficial review of the position of science in Argentina, the close appreciation of French workers is emphasised. There is a note of jealousy in the references to the elaborate equipment of scientific institutions, and a rather arrogant assertion that all Argentinian literature is self-evidently a child of French parentage which contrasts with the condemnation of the snobbishness of the Argentinian intelligentsia in ignoring native art.
Initiation à la vie en Argentine
Par Max Daireaux L. Diffloth Roberto Gache Pierre Janet Gaston Jèze F. Legueu G. Lewan-dowski J.-H. Ricard. (Choses d'Amérique.) Pp. 192. (Paris: Armand Colin, 1935.) 12 francs.
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Initiation à la vie en Argentine. Nature 137, 91 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137091d0
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