Abstract

LAMOSO, Adriana A.. Rhetoric and spaces of power in ¿Qué es esto (What is this?) Catilina?. Rev. Pilquen [online]. 2005, n.7. ISSN 1851-3123.

In the essays that the argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada dedicates to the interpretation of the peronist phenomenon in our country, particularly in ¿Qué es esto? Catilinaria, questions the role of argentine intellectuals due to his illusory part in the political and cultural matters of the public sphere. By means of a pamphletist speech, Martínez Estrada creates a rhetorical machine with which he appeals to intellectuals in terms of virulent opposing reaction. The questioning to the others receives a treatment of strong confrontation and opposition, and his representation consolidates according to his own image and that of his supposed addressees, in a game of marked opposed tensions. Such configuration can't receive but, on the part of the opponents, controversial and disqualified counter-arguments not scantly recognized in the spheres of cultural transmission. The essayist's speech is a harangue in which a challenging knowledge is assured, in virtue of the own genuininess that he gives to the true knowledge of the motives that determined and made the idiosyncrasy of our nationality. In this paper we'll discuss the arguments that put peronism in the middle of a controversy that fractures and displaces the participants of local culture in bloody intellectual duels.

Keywords : Intellectuals; Culture; Nation; Peronism; Speech; Pamphlet.

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