Abstract
Héctor Libertella and Diamela Eltit’s writings, which work as machines of language corrosion, destabilize the settled meanings of the literary phenomenon in respect to the standard representation of the national or the continental. As these compositions resort to the idiolects’ particular and unique trait, they question the whole representation system, renouncing the comforting clearness of what can be communicable in the heart of the community. Nevertheless, these authors also employ the essay as the discursive form that offers a condition of dialogue, which allows them to reconnect with the ordinary as they continually examine it. By writing essays, these authors seek to intervene critically in the debate on the representation of Latin America as a decisive variable in literature. The present paper proposes to question the nature of the relation established between the expressive singularity of those writings and the ordinary activated by the essay.
Keywords
Essay; Community; Libertella; Eltit