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Juan Natalicio González was a Paraguayan intellectual, identified with the historical revisionism and the Colorado Party. He played a central role in spreading this historical revisionism over his country’s frontiers, through of different activities during the early decades of the XX century, until his death in 1966. In this article, we will examine the González’s letters to his master Juan Emiliano O’Leary, the main referent of Paraguayan historical revisionism, those were written in the first years of his intellectual and political life, during the 1920’s. The goals of this text are the study of the literary, editorial and political projects of Natalicio González and the understanding of the relation between González and O’Leary. The reading of these letters enables us to recognize that the literature, the journalism and the editorial work were tools used by González to achieve his political ambitions. These letters were elaborated when González lived in Buenos Aires and they show the way to he practiced his politics inside and outside Paraguay. Finally, these sources aid to identify the autonomy of González to decide his own projects. This article is part of an investigation about the Juan Natalicio González’s trajectory as a Latin-American plural intellectual. |
