On foreigners and short-sighted: figures of the narrator in La mayor, by Juan José Saer
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v1i7p310-334Keywords:
Argentine literature, Juan José Saer, La mayor, narrator.Abstract
The article analyzes some texts of La mayor in which the narrator’s identity is built upon two metaphors of distance: foreignness and myopia. It is also proposed that this condition of foreigner or short-sighted of the narrator reveals the position assumed by Juan José Saer in the 60’s-70’s argentine debate about the relationship between literature and politics. For Saer, the act of writing does not give access to any truth about things nor any meaning of history. On the contrary, literary writing shows that the narrator will never be able to see clearly that what others can see in an unquestioned way, and never be able to define what is “the self” with regard to which the “other” exists, because his place is the shoreline of language, where dissolution of forms starts.
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