La venganza

Abstract

Literature (especially the Latin American one in Argentina, but also everywhere) requests and demands to be read. At the same time, it is always unreadable, and its reader is obviously non-existent, on condition that this non-existence is nevertheless referred to background and consequences. When we read, we always rescue obliterated and present presences that have faded for the simple reason that, turned into a nihilistic power, literature wanders the sand book, but also revolves, anachronistically, around its own tear, in search of a reserve of imagination, a counter-history, from which to deactivate inertia. Therefore, this theoretical text deduces a reading in and of the revenge, since the history as practice and discourse contrary to the sovereignty is followed in parallel by a counter-history that indicates the dark and involuntary servitude, the prophecy, but also the promise, whose processes are distinguished in concomitant patterns of varied, if not contradictory, heterologies, heterotopias, heteronomies, and heterochronies. Latin America in revenge, read in the coextensive way and in the frequently catastrophic effects of the temporal folds: a (new) paradigm that arranges the historical series according to the metaphysics of an absolute and infinite memory.