Sulla letteratura ammutinata, ovvero alcune considerazioni sulla narrativa argentina di fine Novecento

Abstract

Between the 1960s and 1970s, one of the central problems of Argentine literature was answering the question of how to write after Borges, how to relate to the omnipresence of his model. The poetics that emerged then as a generational response to that tension are still today an unsurpassed horizon for what concerns experimentation and originality: an entire generation of writers opposed to opportunistically exploiting the great international success of Latin American literature, launched two challenges, the first to cultural translation in which they were trained; the second to the impossibility of creating projects whose declared aim consisted in avoiding any mechanism of "capture" of the market. Starting from the concept of "mutinous literature", a concept proposed by one of the protagonists of that generation, Luis Gusmán, in this article four significant figures of Argentine literature of the last half century will be explored in depth, complementary and contrasting figures at the same time, problematic in the complex density of their proposals: Ricardo Piglia, Héctor Libertella, Leónidas Lamborghini and Alberto Laiseca.

Keywords

• alberto laiseca
• leónidas lamborghini
• héctor libertella
• ricardo piglia
• tradition
• transgression
• mutiny