The effect of exile in works of Juan José Saer and Daniel Moyano. Methodological proposal to analyze writing and archival processes

The effect of exile in works of Juan José Saer and Daniel Moyano. Methodological proposal to analyze writing and archival processes

Abstract

This article focuses on the works and archives of Juan José Saer and Daniel Moyano. The general idea was to address specific questions through a methodological proposal about archival and writing processes based on the effect of exile in the work of an author as a fundamental issue. Using an archival work as a starting point, we found that the spatial disposition of the data allows us to understand the hiatus or blanks that stand out in a chronology established from the reader perspective. Therefore, these reflections are sustained in an inquiry about the temporality of writing and its materialization from a spatial disposition of documents. In this context, we wonder how it is possible «to see» the writing; how the literary, editorial and experiential vicissitudes of a writer could be represented and explained in a graphical space model. And from this, how it is possible to see the evolution of an archive as the researchers intervene the documents.

To answer these questions we propose to articulate inventoried and organized pre-editorial and editorial documents together with other documents, dates and contextual data about the authors. To this end and starting from a graphical model elaborated to elucidate the writing process in the work of Saer, we extended it to the writing and archive of Moyano. These two chronologies allowed us to point out the influence that a documentary collection could have on expand or uncover different production aspects or periods.