La Guerra del Paraguay en el territorio íntimo: el diario del historiador Juan E. O’Leary (1907-1937)

Abstract

This work communicates the preliminary results of a study on the first three notebooks of the private diary of the Paraguayan historian Juan E, O'Leary (1879 - 1969) following the mark of the Paraguayan War. During his long life, O'Leary built an interpretation of the nationalist war conflict that permeated vast sectors of Paraguayan society, so that his historical discourse was not only informative, in the sense of communicating past events and events, but also performative, since it built realities in the collective memory. The manuscript, recently recovered from its extensive documentary collection, comprises a total of seventeen notebooks and covers the years 1907 and 1960. The assumption that threads the careful reading that has occurred so far is that the intimate writing of the Paraguayan historian is an appreciable source to penetrate the different ways in which he built access to knowledge of the past, and, in particular, contributes to making the extensive process of gestation of his historical work on the warlike conflict more intelligible.