ABSTRACT
In her autobiography, Ocampo excerpts and provides context for some of her letters from the years 1927 to 1929, when she read and published Keyserling, invited him to lecture in Argentina, met him in Versailles, and hosted him on his trip to South America. When she decided to end contact with him, she had Keyserling return her letters and she destroyed most of them. However, she transcribes into her autobiography a few extant letters, and with extraordinary candour her older self reassesses the younger’s infatuated tone. The following selections from her autobiography are supplemented with additional letters from the Keyserling Archives at Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, published here for the first time.
