La década del setenta: crisis de la literatura y algunos nombres propios

The Seventies: Literature Crisis and Some Proper Nouns*

By Daniel Link

"As historians well remember, the decade of the seventies is to Argentines a "long" one. Further to the methodological difficulties historiography runs into to isolate the period, analysts and critics of culture and art also face the danger of articulating mechanically factual processes and symbolic productions which don't have the same rhythms nor admit the same determinations. Therefore, we will here endeavor to track in the literary texts some indices of the different transformations that would permit speaking of something like "the literature of the seventies", with the conviction that, in a peculiar and elliptical way, literature comments and represents its own production conditions: massive literature and media, technologies and utopias, literary genres and political scenes".

*publicado en Entre el silencio y la violencia. Arte contemporáneo argentino. Buenos Aires, arteBA Fundación, 2004 (ISBN 987-21822-0-5) [catálogo de la muestra del mismo nombre organizada por la Fundación arteBA y Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Buenos Aires: 26 de noviembre de 2004 al 13 de marzo de 2005)]

(el texto completo en inglés, acá.)