Las diversas figuraciones de Juan Moreira en la cultura argentina cuentan una historia literaria de la violencia. Mediante una lectura comparativa de tres versiones de Moreira en la coyuntura de los años setenta, este trabajo apunta a problematizar diversas violencias de ese momento, así como los mo...

One of the recurring themes in Argentine literature is the tense relationship of man with the desert and its laws. From the first chroniclers to the romantic writers, the dialectic of the subject and the space was problematized discursively by innumerable authors. Under that perspective and debtor o...

In Bogotá abunce the codes. In Buenos Aires too. In Bogotá there are many who are also localities, or seem to be, because of their incoherent speech, their repetitions, as well as tress and gesture. There are also a lot of these in Buenos Aires.

From the beginning of the literature, there is a deep link between human beings and imaginary androids. The presence of this old reason in the current literature should not be seen as extraordinary, since these machines in the present times are involved in global scientific and philosophical discuss...

This work looks at the presence of children and the representations of many identity conflicts embodied in the novels The mysteries of Rosario and How I daughter, the Argentinian writer and translator César Aira.

César Aira’s Yo era una chica moderna can be read as a metaphorical reconstruction of the social dynamics surrounding the argentine socio-economical crisis culminated at the end of 2001. The national catastrophe is portrayed with an euphoric tone that draws ironically on a literary tradition accusto...

As a narrative practice in which the author invents a personality and an existence while preserving his personal identity and true name, ‘autofiction’ constitutes a suitable instrument to give rise to ‘the fantastic’. By fusing the narrative pacts of the autobiography and the autobiographical novel,...

Cesar Aira has become a significant presence in contemporary Argentine literature, and not only in terms of influence on the younger generation of Latin American novelists. The figure of himself as Author has taken on the form of a character in his novels, which are by no means necessarily autobiogr...

In this presentation, we present our concept of a ‘play pact’, which designates the reading contract in force in the most implausible part of self-fiction, and the way in which we operate is illustrated by a brief analysis of some of César Aira’s self-fictitious stories.

César Aira’s La villa appears in the emblematic year of 2001. This oeuvre works as an optical device that allows to visualize certain contusions of the social and its effects, thanks to the residual as content and as material. The residual materializes in the novel in three levels. At the level of t...

bibliography of César Aira’s book on contemporary art followed by Havana, Buenos Aires, Literatura Random House, 2016, 112 pp.

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It was legitimate that because of the affection I was wearing to Françoise Haffner, who represented for me, in addition to a person, a character, in terms of both his intellectual and human qualities, I would choose, in tribute to the heart and intelligence person she was from her life and to honour...

This article looks at different ways in which artistic creation is depicted in the novels of César Aira An episode in the life of a travelling painter and Jules Supervielle L’homme de la pampa. Inspired by the analysis proposed by Fermín Rodríguez, the importance of the desert and the Indian in the...

This thesis works on how the tension between the social utility of literature and its aesthetic function worked — and operates — more or less directly on the narrative. As it will be understood, they are not closed concepts, but rather pairs of interpellations with which to review stories, stories,...

The aim of this work is the commentary on the trial in Havana de César Aira (2016) in relation to the barthesian notation concept. In this short text Aira tells a walking walk through the Cuban city, from the house of Lezama Lima, to other places — especially museums — where it finds certain objects...

Pocas sometimes the View magazine mentions César Aira, the central place it occupies in the current Argentinian literature, inviting it to the long silence of great significance. This work explores the publication’s reading system, records the forms of Aira’s burial, and looks at operations that hav...

this article seeks to reflect on the notion of author from César Aira’s short novelty (Colonel Príngles, Argentina, 1949), The Conference of literature (1997). In it, César, a minor writer invited to a literature congress in Venezuela, proposes to clone Carlos Fuentes, who in the novel depicts the i...

The magazine Architecture put on the scene in 1944 the unrepresentative concretism in the Prata vanguard when faced with the first Peronist Government, a force that is representative of excellence. Thereafter, the debate on political representation with non-artistic representation had some significa...

In Manigua, Pripyat and The Shadow of Chaki Chan, Carlos Ríos shows one side of the season: three river areas in the sea of the Empire, an aban — do nado after a tooth at the Chernobyl Nuclear Usina and inhabited by humans con -Tami -nest-nested by radic-nesti, another was found by disappearing ethn...

The andrógine profile of the tangel appears in various theosophies and aesthetics. This feature has been seen as a promise of the final recomposition, ontological of the beings. But from this perspective, the Angel will be driven and driving the space of desires and latencies and in literature will...

In a context that raises the issue of the value of current literature, César Aira proposes to dedicate the procedure to the process as a state-of-the-art literary survival alternative. In this article, we start from the definition of César Aira’s monstruum as a feature of a writer’s procedure enabli...

peer reviewed In this essay, I will analyse a dozen of the fiction narratives written by César Aira (Coronel Pringles, 1949) paying special attention to the effacement of his characters’ body and bodily life. Two complementary explanations are explored. The first one, rooted in national literary tra...

Le présent travail d’investigation incline la perspective sur la modalité fantastique de l’autofiction telle qu’elle s’est présentée au cours des vingt dernières années dans différents pays hispano-américains. Sur base d’un corpus représentatif, composé de cinq romans hispano-américains récents, à s...

It would seem that in much of the self-fictions the author not only constructs an image of himself as an individual but also provides material to reflect on the status of the writer as a member of a social and professional group. Even, in some novelties, the portrait of me — the leading, narrative a...