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<\/a>“La Fronda Aristocr\u00e1tica”. Alberto Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n
Eduardo Frei Montalva was a man of many talents and among his characteristics his hobby for reading and writing always stood out (1). He knew how to intertwine successfully, literary tendencies with his passion for politics, writing many texts where he explained his ideas and he was able to promote the Christian social doctrine, both in Chile and Latin America (2).<\/p>\n
His concern to make the ideas that supported his political practice known was shared by his fellow party members and because of this, in 1945 he and some of his members proposed the creation of the Editorial del Pac\u00edfico. Eduardo Frei supported the initiative as the president of La Falange party, and also he became part of the board of the newly established society (3). It should be noted that this publishing house was not only an important project for Eduardo\u2019s political career but it also occupies a place in history within the phenomenon of Chilean publishers.<\/p>\n
In May 17,1946, almost a year after its creation, the publishing house opened a fancy bookshop in Ahumada Street, in the very heart of the city of Santiago, which quickly transformed in a cultural attraction involved in different areas of the artistic and intellectual work of the period (4). The Librer\u00eda del Pac\u00edfico bookshop included an exhibition room where important painters showed their work, such as Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, Mario Carre\u00f1o and Nemesio Ant\u00fanez, and also where many political debates were organized with important international guests (5); situations in which the personality and intellectual heft of Eduardo Frei Montalva found a perfect place to be distinguished.<\/p>\n
Even though the publishing house was created to encourage Christian social ideals, the members of the committee showed a deep interest in promoting what they felt was the historical and literary identity of Chile. In fact, their first publication was La fronda Aristocr\u00e1tica from the historian Alberto Edwards (1874-1932), a work profoundly admired by Frei Montalva and mentioned constantly in his first documents.<\/p>\n
It should be pointed out that Edwards\u2019 work was reissued many times by the Editorial del Pac\u00edfico publishing house, which is important, considering that it provides a conservative interpretation of Chilean history, especially in the defense that Edwards does of Carlos Iba\u00f1ez del Campo\u2019s dictatorship, which Eduardo Frei and other members of La Falange Party were fiercely against. But the interest that the group had in culture and in the value of the spirit, order, sobriety and honesty that Edwards attributed to nineteenth-century politicians -especially to Diego Portales- were characteristics they appreciated and shared.<\/p>\n