Abstract

DORFMAN, Daniela. Ricardo Piglia in the Dock: Theories and Politics of Literature in the Trials against Money to Burn. CELEHIS [online]. 2020, n.39, pp.91-100. ISSN 2313-9463.

Since the first known case in Athens around 493 B.C to our days, a long history of trials has repeatedly put literature in the dock. During the judicial processes, each legal system intended to define what is socially acceptable for the art and literature of the time, according to the Law but also in keeping with social ideas regarding the role and the symbolic power of writers. This article looks at two different trials faced by Argentinean writer Ricardo Piglia upon the publication of his novel Money to Burn: one, against the writer; and the other, accusing Piglia along with his editor and the publishing house Grupo Editorial Planeta. The article analyzes how literary theory enters the legal arena and turns these trials into an instance of aesthetic debate, giving shape to new understandings about literature, and refracting judicial mechanisms by imposing literature’s own.

Keywords : Literature; Trials; Writers; Ricardo Piglia; Money to Burn.

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