La Grande: volver a empezar

Abstract

The objective of this text, a draft for a broader work, is to outline some reading clues for La grande, inasmuch as it constitutes a paradoxical ending of Saer’s production. I say “paradoxical” because we can consider this work a novel of beginnings or of origins: a return to the beginning, in every meaning of the word. From this point of view, some thematic nuclei (such as return or memory) could be studied in relation to the construction of the text, to the relation that is established with tradition and to the singular history of its writing (and to the genetic material that surrounds and completes this novel, unachieved and posthumous at the same time). The idea of this intervention is to comment on three texts, scenes or phrases from the text, and to outline the path for a budding project.