Consists of correspondence with his wife, son, daughter, and various other family members.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Consists of correspondence with individuals such as Silvio Benedetti, Elías Castelnuovo, Luis Fortunato Iglesias, and Carlos Sánchez Viamonte, as well as others.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Alvarez, G.A., 1947
Anido, Maria Luisa, 1981
Arrieta, Rafael Alberto, 1928-1967
Banchs, Enrique, 1928, 1957-1967
Barletta, Leónidas, 1928-1952
Benedetti, Silvio, 1965-1966
Berdiales, Germán, 1961-1974
Bianchi, Alfredo A, 1930-1935
Borcosque, Carlos, 1955
Bruzzone, Alberto, 1973-1979
Bunge, Augusto, 1921
Capdevila, Arturo, 1945, 1950
Castelnuovo, Elías, 1954-1979
Cerretani, Arturo, 1947
Cioppi, D, 1968-1969
Codovilla, Victorio, 1954
Cuneo, Dardo, 1971
Dashkevich, Yuri, 1958
Delgado Fito, C, 1924
Díaz Arana, J.J., 1950
Dickman, Enrique, 1942, 1951
Draghi Lucero, Juan, 1940
Drucaroff, Dr. Sansón, undated
Echegaray, Aristobúlo, 1930
Edelman, Bernardo, 1969
Eichelbaum, Edmundo, 1929, 1940s
Escardo, Florencio, 1941, 1970
Estrella Gutiérrez, Fermín, 1920s
Fossatti, Florencia, 1928
Gálvez, Manuel, 1949, 1958
Ghioldi, Alfredo M, 1978
Ghioldi, Rodolfo, 1971
Giambiaggi, Carlos, 1950
Gil, Antonio A, 1949
Giusti, Roberto F, 1935-1978
Gómez, Alejandro, 1962
González Prada, Alfredo, 1937-1942
González Tuñón, Adolfo E, 1969
González Tuñón, Raúl, 1924
Gorostiza, Héctor, 1934
Guardia, Alfredo de la, 1966-1967
Guibourg, Edmundo, 1970
Guillén, Nicolás, 1979
Gutiérrez, Ricardo, 1926-1927
Ibarbourou, Juana de, 1923-1928
Iglesias, Luis Fortunato, 1957, 1968
Ingenieros, José, 1924
Larra, Raúl, 1973-1978
Leland, Christopher T, 1980
"Lila", 1957
Lorenzo, Tirso, 1925
Loudet, Dr. Osvaldo, undated
Lugones, Jr., Leopoldo, 1951
M (unidentified), 1961
de Maetzu, Ramiro, 1928
Marianetti, Benito, 1969
Mariani, Roberto, undated
Medina Onrubia, Salvadora, 1924-1956
Mistral, Gabriela, 1931
Monjardín, Federico F, 1958
Montagne, Edmundo, 1924, 1929
Montes Benitez, Eloy, 1977-1981
Nario, Hugo I, 1970
Orgambide, Pedro G, undated
Palacios, Alfredo L, 1926-1955
Payró family, 1945
Payró, Julio, 1957
Payró, Roberto J, 1924-1928
Rapaport, Dr. Nicolás, 1949, 1954
Reati, Eugenio Oscar, 1957
Repetto, Nicolás, 1946
Reyes, Alfonso, 1928
Riccio, Gustavo, 1921-1925
Riganelli, Agustín, 1943-1949
Romay, Arturo, 1934
Rosales, Juan, 1969
Rossi, Roberto, 1927
Ruiz Daudet, Carlos, 1958
Sábato, Ernesto, 1969
Salceda, Juan Antonio, 1951-1978
Sánchez Viamonte, Carlos, 1926-1927
Santos Gollan, José, 1949
Scalabrini Ortiz, Raúl, 1933-1939
Silva Valdés, Fernán, 1922-1954
Sináy, Rubén, 1978
Soler Cañas, 1966
Spilimbergo, Liro, 1973
Storni, Alfonsina, undated
Suaréz, Nelly and Orlando, 1954-1973
Tallon, Rodolfo, 1927-1962
Teatro "La Mascara Rosario", 1976
Thénon, Jorge, 1958
Tiempo, César, undated
Troise, Emilio, 1932, 1955
Vasconcelos, José, 1925
Viaggio, Julio J, 1973
Victor, J. Paul, 1950
Vigo, Abraham, circa 1943
Villanueva, Amaro, 1959
Yorio, Ofelia, undated
Zamacois, Eduardo, 1968
Unidentified, dates not examined
Consists of essays and speeches related to the 80th Birthday Celebration at Dr. Jaim Zhitlovsky School.
Arranged by author.
Consists of an award letter for El Premio Aníbal Ponce [Aníbal Ponce Prize] and photographs.
Not arranged according to arrangement scheme.
- Scope and Contents
The Alvaro Yunque Correspondence consists primarily of the correspondence of Alvaro Yunque with other writers and politicians in Argentina and Uruguay. The collection includes letters, notes, essays, and a few manuscript poems. The correspondence includes letters by Yunque to his wife, Alba Gandolfi, and his children, Alba and Adalbo. Alba Gandolfi is often addressed as a co-correspondent in the letters sent to Yunque by poets and other writers.
The collection contains Yunque's correspondence with many members of the Boedo group. These writers include Elías Castelnuovo, Leónidas Barletta, Gustavo Riccio, Aristobúlo Echegaray, Roberto Mariani, César Tiempo, and Delgado Fito. There is also extensive correspondence with other Argentine and Uruguayan writers, including Enrique Banchs, Arturo Capdevila, Raúl and Enrique González Tuñón (brothers), Manuel Gálvez, Fernán Silva Valdés, Juana de Ibarbourou and Roberto J. Payró. The collection also contains correspondence with Argentine politicians Alfredo L. Palacios, Carlos Sanchez Viamonte, and Rodolfo Ghioldi, and important literary critics Roberto F. Giusti, Rafael Alberto Arrieta, Raúl Larra, and Pedro Orgambide. Many of Yunque's works are discussed, such as Antología poética, Barcos de papel, Ta-te-tí, Versos de la calle, and Zancadillas. Yunque's political beliefs were leftist: he and Castelnuovo led the Boedo group in creating fiction with revolutionary themes. The collection includes three letters from leaders of the Partido Comunista celebrating Yunque's life and work. Yunque was interested in writing about children and though he intended his writing for an adult audience, young people also read his fiction. The collection is augmented by a group of papers from a celebration of Yunque's 80th birthday at the Dr. Jaim Zhitlovsky School in Buenos Aires.
- Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following series:
- Collection Creator Biography:
Yunque, Álvaro, 1889-1982
Alvaro Yunque (1889-1982), short story writer, novelist, poet and dramatist, was born in La Plata, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His real name is Arístedes Gandolfi Herrero; "Alvaro Yunque" is a pseudonym. Yunque moved to the city of Buenos Aires to study in the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. After completing his studies, he first pursued a career as a math teacher and journalist. He worked for the magazine Nosotros and the newspapers Crítica, La Nación, and La Prensa. Yunque's first published book was Versos de la calle (1924), a book of poems. His short stories were first published in two collections, Barcos de papel and Ta-te-tí: Otros barcos de papel (Cuentos de niños), both published in 1926. The fiction of his later period is Muchachos pobres (1956) and Muchachos del sur (1957), and a novel, Tutearse con el peligro.
Yunque's fiction is chiefly concerned with poor children in urban settings. Yunque was a central figure in the literary group Grupo de Boedo (named after Boedo Street in Buenos Aires), a group which was committed to producing realist fiction with radical themes. This literary group coexisted, and is often contrasted with, the Florida literary group (named after Florida Street), a group which favored avant-garde writing with less political themes. Christopher T. Leland notes in his study of Argentine writers, The Last Happy Men (1986), that "Yunque, `The Forge' likely remains Boedo's best loved figure." (p. 59) Yunque's literary reputation has also been established by his numerous theatrical pieces, which include, Miguel cantó (1936) and Somos hermanos (1936), and his literary studies, La literatura social en la Argentina (1941) and a large work, Historia de los argentinos (1968).
- Acquisition:
The collection was the property of the author's family until the University purchased the author's correspondence from Alba Gandolfi de Baldner (author's daughter) in 1995 .
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
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- Credit this material:
Alvaro Yunque Correspondence; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2r36tx56g
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2
- Subject Terms:
- Children's literature, Argentine -- 20th century.
Critics -- Argentina -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Latin American literature -- 20th century.
Latin American poetry -- 20th century.
Novelists, Argentine -- 20th century.
Poets, Uruguayan -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Short stories, Argentine -- 20th century.
Uruguayan poetry -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence
- Names:
- Grupo de Boedo (Group of writers)
Gandolfi Herrero, Alba