THE FORMATION OF PATIOTS. GUTIÉRREZ, SARMIENTO AND GONZÁLEZ: THE USE OF FICTION IN ARGENTINE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

Abstract

For some years I have been studying government politicians in the Argentine 19th century. I analyzed
some aspects of J. V. González's career, and more specifically his interventions in the literary and
educational field. Gonzalez does not write his short stories, legends, memoirs, for the evasion or
entertainment of his readers, but to train rulers and rulers as citizens, as patriots. His literary and
literary criticism writings circulate in book support, periodicals, and school headquarters. If I look,
especially in his school books, it is because, according to my working hypothesis, there he believes
to find his readers, future rulers and rulers, that his voice becomes the voice of the state, and it is
there that the State also controls that his writings are read, analyzed and formed to his readers.
Several questions assaulted me, but one of them is the origin of this article: this use of literature to
form patriots, and this school strategy was typical of Gonzalez or was it part of a tradition existing in
the political leadership of the nineteenth century? I chose to explore the trajectories of Juan María