De virutas y cachivaches. La Historia Argentina en las monografías costumbristas de un bibliotecario salteño a principios del siglo XX

Francisco Centeno (1862-1944) is a "provincial bohemian” from Salta who served as Director of the library of the Foreign Affairs Ministry from 1884 until 1916. After his retirement from the Ministry, he published three volumes of Historic Virutas, a compilation of his costumbristas monographs and files of the Argentinian diplomacy. In this article we work on two recurring metaphors in the writing of Centeno, “virutas” and "cachivaches”. Both expressions refer to a way of imagining the nation ...