Cómo se hace un autor. Acerca del contacto cultural entre ciudades (Córdoba / Buenos Aires, 1880-1930)

How does one build a history of publishing in the absence of a descriptive, serial or qualitative prehistory?The question characterizes the starting point of all inquiry focusing the ancient world of cordobean booklet,books and magazines; an effort strained between meager local precedents and sophisticated external stimuli.Been that the case, there is no other way than simultaneous elaboration of large maps of the evolution andsuccessive states of that world, and bounded and intensive advances on specially representative or significantcases. Such an advance has begun to clear the instances and modalities of realization of the printed thing in theturn of the century, while throwing a light its heteronomous character. In fact, from the writing stage until themoment of the exhibition in the shopwindows in the form of book, any editorial fact that could be pointed outregarding Córdoba is as much local as porte o or European and should, consequently, be considered on scaleadequate to the territoriality of each cultural contact. The making of the author, phenomenon highlighted by therelational consideration and topic of the present article, allows us to appreciate in a very clear way the postulatedheteronomy.