López Martínez, Rodrigo (2023) An Author without a Nation: Fictional Renderings of Leopoldo Lugones in Argentine Literature. Latin American Research Review. pp. 1-17. ISSN 00238791

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Abstract

This article examines three novels that use fiction to revise the figure of the Argentine author Leopoldo Lugones: Ricardo Piglia's Respiración artificial (1980), C. E. Feiling's Un poeta nacional (1993), and César Aira's Lugones (2020). These three novels present different portrayals of Lugones, which also mirror their opposing views of the Argentine literary tradition. Piglia, Feiling, and Aira look back at the so-called national poet when self-fashioning themselves as writers and outlining a literary project in a (post)dictatorial scenario. In a cultural field marked by the effects of state terror and neoliberal reform policies, these fictional renderings of Lugones become a means of reflecting on the political past and the future of literature. Ultimately, I argue that Respiración artificial, Un poeta nacional, and Lugones devise a figure of the Argentine author decoupled from the mission of consolidating a national identity that Lugones epitomized for nearly half a century.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Aira; Feiling; Piglia; Lugones; Argentina;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > Spanish
Item ID:	18347
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2023.47
Depositing User:	Rodrigo Lopez Martinez
Date Deposited:	05 Apr 2024 10:32
Journal or Publication Title:	Latin American Research Review
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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