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Chapter 16 - Argentine Responses: César Aira and Ricardo Piglia

from Part I - Self, Family, and the Argentine Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
Niall H D Geraghty
Edited by
Robin Fiddian
Robin Fiddian
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

A conception of the Argentine literary tradition as one built around creative misreading can be directly linked with Borges. Leading writers Cesar Aira and Ricardo Piglia engage with Borges in a similar manner both to modify and to write themselves into a new Argentine literary tradition. In essays including ’Homage to Roberto Arlt’ and ’Ideology and Fiction in Borges’, Piglia utilizes a reading of Borges in terms of ’erroneous attribution’ to politicize his work and situate himself as Borges’s true descendent. For his part, Aira’s rejection of Borges in his 1993 essay ’Exoticism’ is not as absolute as it appears; an earlier essay of 1981, ’Who is the Greatest Argentine Writer?’, marks him as Borges’s heir.

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influenceanxietyconflictmisreadingplagiarismexoticism
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Jorge Luis Borges in Context , pp. 130 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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