Reading as a scriptural mounting.

The posthumous books of Silvina Ocampo

Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the particularity of Silvina Ocampo’s posthumous books, edited by the curator of her archive, Ernesto Montequin, based on the hypothesis that these books are the result of an assembly operation that Montequin performs at starting from a reading consisting of a selection of materials, almost entirely unpublished, inventoried, classified and organized by himself, as curator of the archive and editor of the work. The assembly operation that begins with the very act of archiving sets in motion a process of reading, reconstruction, and editing of the manuscripts that culminates with the assembly and publication of the volumes. This process gives the posthumous texts new meanings, not pre-existing to the montage, which, likewise, project, reconfigure and transform the published work, giving it new legibilities. Following Javier Guerrero, a «material survival» (2022:9), concepts that propose to demarcate the coincidence between the end of an author's life and the cessation of his writing.