Victoria Ocampo Today: between her Revival and Relevance
Interview with Ivonne Bordelois by María Celia Vázquez and Manuela Barral (Buenos Aires, May 2022 and June 2023)
Abstract
Ivonne Bordelois approached Sur's thanks to the invitation of José Bianco, who was looking for young people to join the magazine. From that moment on, she became close friends with him and Enrique Pezzoni, and met Victoria Ocampo, although their relationship was not very close, as she says, "because Ocampo intimidated her". Moreover, in the last years of Victoria's life, Bordelois was far away, in the United States, doing her PhD at MIT. However, over time and from a distance, she kept admiring more and more the fluidity of V.O.'s style and began to regret not having treated her so personally. In this interview, she tells how she came up with the idea for her recent book Victoria. Paredón y después (2021), a true vindication of V.O.'s talent as a writer and portraitist.