ABSTRACT
Ricardo Guiraldes belonged to one of the most illustrious and prosperous landowning families of Argentina at the turn of the twentieth century, his privileged social status and unlimited wealth enabling him to lead an untroubled lifestyle of literature and travels. If during his lifetime Guiraldes served as the central, yet unacknowledged link in the promotion of Joyce in Latin America, after his untimely death from cancer in Paris in 1927 a series of circumstances strengthened his posthumous association with the Irish writer. In the effervescent climate of Argentina in the 1920s, an avant-garde manifesto did not come exempt from the customary challenge to social, linguistic, and cultural conventions. The Valery Larbaud–Guiraldes financial and cultural exchange signified the immediate migration of the newly released Ulysses to the remote and distant geography of Buenos Aires. If Larbaud has been unanimously recognized as the European promoter of Ulysses, then Jorge Luis Borges fulfils a similar role in the Hispanic world.
