Margin

Are there any common elements in literary texts written by Witold Gombrowicz, Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, Copi, Osvaldo Lamborghini or César Aira? Some of the mentioned writers might have influenced others, but very little could be said about themes, genres, literary principles or styles they all shared. And yet all of them consciously position themselves on the “margins” which, in turn, determine and define their narrative. The aim of this paper consists in examining the ways in which the above mentioned writers reevaluate “peripheries” as a cultural location; it is the marginal position that allows them to reinvent the national tradition and to critically reexamine well-established Western values. Thus, it analyses the discursive configurations used to propagate immature, inferior and minor forms. Further, it focuses on the processes of discursive migrations, applied in the search of what resides outside ontological certainties and the binary opposition of existence as opposed to non-existence, i.e. in the search of “non-places” and “literature in the making”, or “minor literature” postulated by Gilles Deleuze.

¿Qué es lo que une a las escrituras de Witold Gombrowicz, Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, Copi, Osvaldo Lamborghini, César Aira? A pesar de reconocidas en algunos casos influencias, muy poco si observamos la problemática que atraviesa estas obras, los géneros de los que participan y los que rebasan, sus principios constructivos de la representación, la heterogeneidad de sus lenguajes. Todas ellas comparten, sin embargo, la misma –voluntaria– posición marginal que las condiciona y define. En el presente trabajo se examinarán las maneras en que estos escritores llegan a revalorizar “el margen” como perspectiva cultural desde la cual es posible reinventar una tradición nacional, pero también revisar críticamente los valores del Occidente. Se analizarán los modos en que se configuran los discursos que privilegian la inmadurez, lo bajo o lo informe, y que migran en busca de un afuera de las certezas ontológicas occidentales, de las esencias, de la dicotomía del ser y el no ser; en busca de ese “no lugar” de la “literatura del devenir”, en permanente mutación, en fin, de la “literatura menor” que postula Gilles Deleuze.

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