Nora Benedict

Bio

Nora Benedict is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on Latin American literature, book history, and questions of access surrounding both digital and print cultures. Her monograph, Borges and the Literary Marketplace: How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading, is under contract with Yale University Press. Twitter: @NoraCBenedict

Contributions

The Transcontinental Book Trade: Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company and Victoria Ocampo’s Sur Enterprise

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No tengo sino libros que leo, marco con lápiz y acaban medio desencuadernados si los frecuento demasiado. (I only own books that I read, mark with pencil, and that end up with broken spines because I read them so much.) —Victoria Ocampo, “De la cartilla al libro” (From Notebook to Book) (1959) In the second volume of her Testimonios, Victoria Ocampo recalls how her friend, Virginia Woolf, insisted that she must “guardar el dinero para la revista [ Sur] y los libros” (save money for her journal [...

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print culture transnational