| Summary: | This paper is on the borderline between three different domains but with shared features: intellectual history (Darnton and La Capra), the literary essay (Praz and Steiner), and the history of reading (Chartier). It aims at describing a decisive phase in the sentimental education of Alfonso Reyes, Antonio Caso, and Pedro Hernriquez Ureña, who, during this period (1906-1909), lived under the influence of the Greek classic writers and of the interpretations that nineteenth-century philosophers and writers made about them. Each chapter in this story narrates a key episode in the characters' friendship, locating it in its immediate setting and construing it as part of the world of the book and literature.
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