Where are the galaxies fleeing to?: writing and disease in Severo Sarduy
In his essay on literature and illness, Roberto Bolaño builds an intimate triad of experience that guides us through the fundamental motivations behind all poetry: travel, sex and books. I inted here to inquire how this triad works in the texts by Severo Sarduy, especially in the essays of El Cristo...
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I10-R377-article-359762025-11-29T22:41:51Z Where are the galaxies fleeing to?: writing and disease in Severo Sarduy ¿Hacia dónde huyen las galaxias?: escritura y enfermedad en Severo Sarduy Denise León Caribbean literatures Severo Sarduy late texts sick scriptures literaturas caribeñas Severo Sarduy textos tardíos escrituras enfermas In his essay on literature and illness, Roberto Bolaño builds an intimate triad of experience that guides us through the fundamental motivations behind all poetry: travel, sex and books. I inted here to inquire how this triad works in the texts by Severo Sarduy, especially in the essays of El Cristo de la rue Jacob and Pájaros en la playa, late texts within his production. These are materials in which the disease redirects the trajectory of the journey and the writing happens under the sign of collapse, of disaster, in the sense that Maurice Blanchot gave to this term. Thus, like an aging Robinson, Sarduy returns to his island to deal with a series of materials that shows the persistence of the body traces, the persistence of the remains of the matter. My essay will then delve into the strategies that will allow the Cuban author to keep his gaze on the unspeakable and build an alternative temporality and a scenario where the oscillation between the organic and the inorganic, the relationship with the universe and the stars, become a possible way of questioning oneself about the exceedances of the living. En su ensayo sobre literatura y enfermedad, Roberto Bolaño construye una tríada íntima de experiencia que nos guía a través de las motivaciones fundamentales que hay detrás de toda poesía y que está constituida ciertamente por los viajes, el sexo y los libros. Me propongo indagar en el presente trabajo cómo funciona esta tríada en la obra del cubano Severo Sarduy, especialmente en los ensayos de El Cristo de la rue Jacob y en Pájaros en la playa, textos tardíos dentro de su producción. Se trata de materiales en los que la enfermedad redirecciona la trayectoria del viaje y la escritura sucede bajo el signo del derrumbamiento, del desastre, en el sentido que Maurice Blanchot le diera a este término. Así, como un Robinson envejecido, Sarduy regresa a su isla para trabajar con una serie de materiales que apuestan por la persistencia de la huella corporal, de los restos, de la materia. Mi ensayo se internará, entonces, en las estrategias que le permitirán al autor cubano mantener la mirada sobre lo inenarrable y construir una temporalidad y un escenario alternativos donde la oscilación entre lo orgánico y lo inorgánico y la relación con el universo y los astros, se vuelven un modo posible de interrogarse sobre las excedencias de lo viviente. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2021-12-14 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/35976 10.53971/2718.658x.v12.n20.35976 Recial; Vol. 12 Núm. 20 (2021): Dossier: Literatura y enfermedad en América Latina; 140-148 2718-658X 1853-4112 10.53971/2718.658x.v12.n20 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/35976/36239 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/recial/article/view/35976/36240 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |
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In his essay on literature and illness, Roberto Bolaño builds an intimate triad of experience that guides us through the fundamental motivations behind all poetry: travel, sex and books. I inted here to inquire how this triad works in the texts by Severo Sarduy, especially in the essays of El Cristo de la rue Jacob and Pájaros en la playa, late texts within his production. These are materials in which the disease redirects the trajectory of the journey and the writing happens under the sign of collapse, of disaster, in the sense that Maurice Blanchot gave to this term. Thus, like an aging Robinson, Sarduy returns to his island to deal with a series of materials that shows the persistence of the body traces, the persistence of the remains of the matter. My essay will then delve into the strategies that will allow the Cuban author to keep his gaze on the unspeakable and build an alternative temporality and a scenario where the oscillation between the organic and the inorganic, the relationship with the universe and the stars, become a possible way of questioning oneself about the exceedances of the living. |
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