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Fogwill

literature eccentric Argentina produces so many writers that eccentricity has become a central part of the literary corpus. If some think of César Aira as the backbone of a type of writing "funny", some think, better, Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, known as a dry Fogwill ("I wanted to be at the Socrates and Hegel type. Who says Guillermo Friedrich Hegel. ")

Fogwill has written: "The art of the novel, which seems complex, it appears, when viewed from afar, a simple combinatorial. There is the story, are the chair and the table of novels, and comes in mind to combine some quotes on palabreriles veils. " Everything, well, comes easy. And yet, in Fogwill, which often make is to hide the words "what had to happen behind." One must work for indirection, reading against the grain, find out what is not said behind what is being said. For example, in the history of travel to visit a mother who is About art of the novel, the narrator concludes: "... I had come without documents and did not want to be on the sidewalk or on board the Peugeot, because here is still dangerous to walk down the street without identity papers." This text, written in the early 80's, refers to the period of the dictatorship in Argentina. This dictatorship is here, what is not narrated but at the same time, thanks to the "art of the novel, is very present.

Fogwill has written the great novel about the war in the Falklands ( analyzed texts), and better than anyone has told the imbalances of the neoliberal Argentina ( Sense experience). It has also been one of the writers who have been Borges face and emerge unscathed, in Help him, a short novel re-imagines the Beatriz Viterbo "El Aleph", but key sexualized and hallucination drugs. If these elements do not appear Borges of "sensory experience," sex, drugs, Fogwill dares to help fill the gaps ( Help it can be read as Help Borges). In fact, all the work of Fogwill can be understood as an attempt to fill the gaps: Fogwill has suggested that the current use of language produces "artifacts prefabricated" platitudes that are "empty", the writer should go against the artifice against the common place, and fill that void.