Writtings about Violence in Argentine Literature: “El matadero”, by Esteban Echeverría and “Tablas de sangre”, by José Rivera Indarte

Abstract

This paper analyzes the central place that occupies "El matadero" within an area of Argentine literatura within an area of Argentine literature dedicated to the representation of violence and its marks on bodies and subjectivities, through a comparison with another text, also produced within the framework of the symbolic struggle that Argentine writers maintained against the regime of Rosas: “Tablas de sangre by José Rivera Indarte. Based on this counterpoint, the present work wants to question about the factors that favored the centrality of “El matadero” within a possible genealogy of writings about violence in national literature, corroborated by the incessant re-readings and fictional rewritings that it harvested for more than a century, while more bloody versions of the same events and of the same historical conjuncture were hardly studied and they surrounded the oblivion.

Keywords

• Violencia
• cuerpo
• animalidad
• literatura argentina