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Journal Article
Desistance: Literature and the Logic of Life
2021
Overview
By “Latin American literary tradition,” in other words, I am only referring to the customary inscription of these texts within the so-called Latin American studies, an “area study” among others that results from the internal division of labor within modern and contemporary universities. However, more important than this administrative division is the fact that all the texts I will comment on are elaborations of a singular experience of finitude and exhaustion. Thus, what dies in these texts is not only the main character—and soon enough the writer—but also a particular way of understanding literature that has defined its modern relationship to politics. José María Arguedas’s El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo (1971), Severo Sarduy’s Pájaros de la playa (1993), and Clarice Lispector’s A hora da Estrela (1977), among others, constitute a series of literary texts in which conventional criticism informed by the nationformation processes and its economimesis begins to fade away. What we see in these texts is a combination of testimony and the thematization of illness and death affecting both characters and authors, which demands from us a different practice of reading.
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Wayne State University Press
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