es-cueto, or the essay as a distinction

Abstract

The present text displays a reading of the Argentine essayist Sergio Cueto. Starting from his last book, Intimidad de las cosas (2018), we propose to reveal the various characteristics of the essay understood as a distinction, that is, as a way of singularity in writing. For this our work studies the relationship between thought and expression, which in our author is evident not only in his most recent books, Cinco retratos (2010), Kafka. Una construcción (2009), but also in his first books: Seis estudios girrianos (1993), Maurice Blanchot. El ejercicio de la paciencia (1997). For this we analyze what we have identified as constant orientations in Cueto's writing, which range from his interest in the question posed by things as a philosophical question, to poetry understood as an expression of reality, and also through humor as a thought of extravagance, or music as the advent of an impossible experience.