Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Mar 2022)
Fiction, journalism and resistance: Julio Cortázar and Sin censura editorial Project
Abstract
Through a reading from the archival, this article seeks to recover the problematic overlap between politics and fiction in the writing of Julio Cortázar based on the experience of clandestine editing of the newspaper Sin censura (1979-1980) and on the work with two of his fictional short stories censored by the Argentine military dictatorship, “Graffiti” and “Recortes de prensa” (Queremos tanto a Glenda, 1980). The hypothesis is that, in the context of repression by state terrorism, Cortázar is located in a unique position, not captivable by the commitment to political reason or by the demand for aesthetic freedom, through an intellectual practice that opens a line of flight and circulates the writing in the inexpressible groove between art and politics, without being confused with this or that while communicating them through an interstitial space.
