Among the gift of forgviness, the “amancia” and the friendship ethics: Victoria Ocampo bids Pierre Drieu La Rochelle farewell
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i10p264-293Keywords:
Victoria Ocampo, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Gift of forgiveness, Friendship policiesAbstract
When Victoria Ocampo bids Pierre Drieu la Rochelle farewell, she tries, if not to justify his objectionable collaborationist behavior, at least to mitigate the charges he was accused of, by presenting arguments to purify his disgraced name and make his conversion to fascism more excusable. While she gives him the benefit of the doubt in relation to some of the most serious charges against him, she gives him a posthumous credit of confidence: the gift of forgiveness. What other feeling, if not love, could make Victoria publicly state for such a controversial person? Love, or “amancia”, works as the force of desire and provides the energy that pushes her to write in memoriam, in spite of being distant from Drieu (while he was alive).
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