Reading (and writing about) Levrero
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p173-188Keywords:
Mario Levrero, Roland Barthes, Criticism, Pathetic criticismAbstract
My purpose with this essay is – according to a previous discussion on the connections between some of Barthes’s proposals and the final work by Levrero – to consider an aspect of the reception of this moment in his work (comprised of “Diario de un canalla”, “El discurso vacío” and “La novela luminosa”). Thus, continuing to analyze the parallelism between Barthes’s proposals and some interpretive potentialities of Levrero’s work, I invest a little more vigorously in the expansion of what could be a “pathetic criticism” of said work, and comment on what I perceive as ways to avoid this form of criticism in the essays by Adriana Astutti and Sandra Contreras. This way, I seek to raise arguments highlighting the pertinence of a critical inclination that allows for an approximation between autobiographical elements in the process of, according to Barthes, “writing reading” (Écrire la lecture).
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