Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Nov 2021)
Writings in play. Posthumous books. The Ocampo / Montequin experience
Abstract
The posthumous corpus of Silvina Ocampo, under the care of Ernesto Montequin, is made up of The repetitions and other unpublished stories (2006), Inventions of memory (2006), The endless tower (2007), Armies of darkness (2008), The promise (2011), and The drawing of time (2014). In these texts we find constellations of scriptures at stake. The purpose of this work is to show how these constellations proceed collaboratively, in operations where both the author and the editor participate. The hypothesis of this reading is that the unpublished ocampiana writing acts as a materiality that will be the possibility of construction, by its editor Montequin, of a montage that he carries out from three devices: the archive, the bookwork, and the shanzhai. Through them, Montequin weaves together ocampiana writings and gives rise to posthumous books as active collaborative, affectionate and vital of writings experiences.
