ABSTRACT
My aim in the following essay is to explore some ressonances between the notion/concept of “idiorrhythmy”, formulated by Roland Barthes in his How to Live Togetheritalic> and the late works by the Uruguayan author Mario Levrero, focussing particularly on El discurso vacioitalic> and La novela luminosa. The conversation between these two authors, though somewhat tangential, reinforces an alternative to the sort of standard reading of Levrero, and highlights a certain operation of displacement in his work, which is related to the politics of the care of the self that the writing of such texts promote.
Keywords
Idiorrhythmy; Self-writing; Barthes; Levrero