Current Issue
Between the 1960s and 1970s, one of the most debated issues in Argentine literature concerned how to manage Borges’s cultural legacy and in particular how to relate to the omnipresence of his model. The poetics that emerged then as a generational response to that tension are still an unsurpassed horizon today for what concerns experimentation and originality. In those years, in fact, an entire generation of writers opposed to opportunistically exploiting the great international success of Latin American literature, launched two challenges of no small importance: the first was to the cultural tradition in which they had been trained; the second to the commercial implications of their works, engaging in projects whose declared aim was to avoid any mechanism of “capture” of the market.
Starting from the concept of “mutinous literature”, a concept proposed by Libertella and reworked by one of the protagonists of that generation, Luis Gusmán, in this issue of “Pagine Inattuali” four leading figures of Argentine literature of the late twentieth century will be analysed, complementary figures and, at the same time time, contrasting, namely Ricardo Piglia, Héctor Libertella, Leónidas Lamborghini and Alberto Laiseca. Therefore, after a Gusmán interview, essays by Agustín Conde De Boeck, Lorenzo Mari, Annabella Canneddu, Ana Gallego Cuiñas and Marcella Solinas will follow. The issue will conclude with some extracts from narrative works by authors such as Gusmán, Laiseca, Piglia, Libertella and Lamborghini.
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