From the subject at it’s boiling point: narrative anachronism, exoticism and image in César Aira's El santo
This text starts from the Bataillian idea of a “subject at its boiling point” to think about some aspects of the narrative El santo (2015) by César Aira: the narrative anachronism, the exoticism and the image. The miracle maker monk, the narrative protagonist, is this subject at boiling point who is...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) |
| Repositorio: | Boletim de Pesquisa NELIC (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/82981 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/nelic/article/view/82981 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | César Aira Expenditure Impersonal Dispêndio Impessoal |
| Resumo: | This text starts from the Bataillian idea of a “subject at its boiling point” to think about some aspects of the narrative El santo (2015) by César Aira: the narrative anachronism, the exoticism and the image. The miracle maker monk, the narrative protagonist, is this subject at boiling point who is implicated (his body, his experience) in the costly dynamics of events in the world. It is argued that this implication seems to displace subjectivity into the order of the impersonal, since the only personal instance — the anachronistic voice of the narrator — follows the logic of exoticism in bringing the silence of the image into language: there is no organization of experiences aimed at a narrative outcome (the communication of an acquired knowledge); on the contrary, the whole succession of events shows nothing but an expenditure of energy without return from a subject at his boiling point (the communication of an excess). |
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