Abstract

PASETTI, Pía. "And my hand does not stop writing". A route of the writing scenes of El lugar by Mario Levrero. CELEHIS [online]. 2022, n.43, pp.41-50. ISSN 2313-9463.

In the latest productions by Mario Levrero (Montevideo, 1940-2004), the inquisitions around scriptural praxis tend to occupy the textual space. Thisisexhibited, in particular, in the “Diario de un canalla” (1992), El discurso vacío (1996) y La novela luminosa (2005). However, we note that in the earliest stages of its production a series of problems are already beginning to be outlined that, in the texts just mentioned, appear exacerbated. We refer to the transgression of the instrumental nature of writing -the écrivance (Barthes, 1981)-, to give way to an intransitive writing; the relationship between well-being and writing praxis (Kristeva, 1991); and the construction of subjects posessing the “knowledge of writing” (Gramuglio 1992; Jitrik, 2000). In this work, we will focus on one of his first novels, El lugar-written in 1969 and published in 1982, and part of the so-called “Trilogía involuntaria” -, with the aim of examining various scenes of writing and metatextual passages that we read as instances germinal nuclei producing meaning that go through this last stage of his work.

Keywords : Mario Levrero; El lugar; writing; writer figure.

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