Refine
Has Fulltext
- no (2)
Year of publication
- 2017 (2) (remove)
Is part of the Bibliography
- yes (2)
Keywords
- Borges (1)
- Chitarroni (1)
- hermeticism (1)
- modern art (1)
- poetics of the illegible (1)
Institute
From blind shorthand
(2017)
This essay explores the poetics of obscurity that informs Luis Chitarroni’s « unfinished novel » The No Variations. Focusing on the « reticent » erudition that distinguishes this text, my analysis examines its dialogue with the paradigm of Borges’ erudition and narrative poetics, as well as with certain « counter-Borgesian » constellations in recent Argentine literature. My reading aims to show how Chitarroni’s anti-novel reactivates a specific Argentinean tradition of productive illegibility while considering how it relates to the practices of « impediment » and « aesthetic reduction » that pervade modern art and literature.