Cáscaras vací­as, un agujero en el orden del ser: Espectralidad y polí­tica en la literatura de Juan José Saer

Abstract

Violence as the condition of possibility for literature is an idea outlined by Saer. It leads us to consider how the relation between the political and social dimension and the specific world of writing is configurated. If one thinks of his literature as from what he called a "morality of failure" in Don Quixote one could say, resuming Julio Premat, that his characters live a mourning situation where the moral universe, political and family affiliations are deeply cracked. There is a sense of loss that implies the incessant lurking of ghosts and the various ways of expurgating them in a struggle within the order of symbolic representation