"A Running Machine to (Not) Repeat History. Readings on 'Campo de Mayo' by Félix Bruzzone"

Abstract

This article explores Félix Bruzzone's "Campo de Mayo," suggesting that it is a work that innovatively responds to the question of how to narrate the memory of the recent past by deploying a narrative device that pushes the boundaries of its drifting aesthetics. Firstly, we note that, in its reminiscences with its performative format, the novel asserts operations of displacing a narrative on the run that unfolds between the forces of searching and fleeing, in a spiral movement that imparts the power of difference in repetition. Drawing from Gilles Deleuze's notion of a “machine,” we propose contemplating how this device operates and the connections it forges between the past and the present. Additionally, we analyze the operations of temporalization and spatialization deployed in the narration, as well as the forms of community (Nancy) that become visible in Campo de Mayo. Finally, we delve into the connections presented by this configuration of reality with the prominence of aquatic materiality (Bachelard) in Bruzzone's work, in a way that reaffirms the conception of life as a flow transforming into a cyclical and incessant repetition.

Keywords

• literatura - memoria – hijos de desaparecidos– correr – agua