ABSTRACT
Back in France at the end of the war, Roger Caillois sought to make use of his expertise and to further his activities as an editor: within a few months of his return, he signed a contract with Gallimard to be the director of a new collection, La Croix du Sud, devoted to Latin American literature in French translation. The first book Caillois published in the collection was Borge's Ficciones, but it did not appear until 1951. Overall, Caillois tended to publish writers who were roughly his contemporaries, with the earliest work being a new edition of Giiiralde's Don Segundo Sombra. He wrote essays on Latin America and coedited the three issues of the literary journal La Licorne, founded by the Uruguayan poet Susana Soca. Through the decades since Caillois's initial efforts, the Latin American presence has become ever more institutionalized on the French, and especially Parisian, landscape.
