“El hallazgo de la moderna fuente y la sonrisa de la antigua vertiente”:  Juan José Saer, Santa Fe, 1957

This paper presents a series of significant episodes for Juan José Saer’s early years as a writer that took place in the city of Santa Fe in the mid-50s: his first publications in the press and books, his relationship with the members of Adverbio literary group and with the members of Poesía Buenos Aires poetry magazine, and the event known as the Primera Reunión de Arte Contemporáneo. In this way, this paper intends to reflect on the background of a provincial writer based on the characterization of the intellectual field in which he intervened. The hypothesis behind this analysis suggests that young writers from Santa Fe in the 1950s carried out aesthetic renewal efforts taking part in already legitimized spaces of the city's cultural field and, in this way, they intervened in the prevailing debates on nationalism, regionalism, and cosmopolitism.