Within the framework of studies on the Spanish diaspora and exile, this thesis focuses on the analysis of the integration of the Spanish poet and writer Rafael Alberti into Argentine society during the early stage of his exile in the country. This analysis is based on the reconstruction of their contact networks, the trajectories he followed, and the publications he sent to two mass media nucleated in different groups: the Argentine magazine Sur, directed and founded by Victoria Ocampo, and the periodic publication España Republicana, the press organ of the Centro Republicano Español de Buenos Aires. In the case of Sur, the period 1940-1945 was considered, that is, from Alberti’s arrival in the country as an exile until the end of the World War II. As for the the Spanish publication, the years 1941 and 1942 were considered, during which the poet published a significant number of articles and participated in activities promoted by Hispanic institutions in the country, such as courses, conferences and other meetings.

On one hand, Alberti’s trajectory as a writer and his past as a republican artist were recorded. This allowed us to reconstruct the itineraries that Alberti traced after his arrival in Argentina and to examine the connections that he built with the Hispanic associative frame that was formed at the local level.

Describing the contents of these publications helped us to recover the main debates that circulated on their pages. This study also enabled us to recognize the disputes, as well as the aesthetic choices made by the poet to maintain a presence in two competitive mass media.

Regarding to the articles that he published, a deep and comparative analysis of these writings allowed us to discern the political and literary ideas that the Spanish poet wanted to promote. For them, we analyze the notion of the Republic, which led us to recover the debates that had circulated during the spanish Civil War in the graphic press of Argentina through the most important newspapers, such as La Nación, La Prensa and Crítica. In this way, we were able to identify the tensions that existed in Argentina among writers of the Buenos Aires intellectual scene before the arrival of the group of exiles. To achieve this, it was also necessary to reconstruct the universe of cultural magazines that existed in the country in the decade prior to the arrival of these exiles.

Additionally, we examine other aspects of Alberti’s political conception linked to the spanish Civil War, fascism, freedom, World War II and the figure of exile. Alberti was a writer affiliated with the Spanish Communist Party, so it was also important to see how he expressed his ideological thinking.

Finally, the poet attempted to integrate into the different circles of writers that existed in Argentina. Describing the meetings that were organized around the Grupo Sur allowed us to recognize the order of belonging to this intellectual tendency nucleated around Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges, among others, and associate Alberti’s figure with other sociability scenarios and activities organized by the Hispanic institutions in the country.