Modernist diaries: notes of the literary projects of Vargas Vila, Tablada, Blanco Fombona and Reyles

Abstract

Modernism in Spanish and Latin American Literature represented a poetic proposal of its own while exploring genres such as chronicle, essay and autobiography. The latter allows for a panoramic study of the diary as an alternative to the exaltation of the self that had its highest point in the last decade of the XIX century. A constant of the diarists in modernism is their focus on future literary projects. So, in the twentieth century, the eldest modernists developed the habit of carrying notebooks to record the aesthetic ideas that guided their literary work on different levels.