Abstract.
In recent years, theories have emerged announcing the end of the autonomy of literature in Latin America, which was supposedly achieved in the 1960s with the authors of the so-called Boom. From a linear and periodical perspective, the end of the specificity of literary discourse, as well as the collapse of its institutionality, is attributed to complex tensions of our present. A rigorous contemporary of the Boom, Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s narrative work reveals its relevance by evidencing the existence of alternative paths to “the conquest and crisis” of the primacy of the aesthetic in Mexican narrative and, perhaps, in the literature of the continent.
Keywords:
Jorge Ibargüengoitia; Latin American Boom; Mid-Century Generation; autonomy and post-autonomy of literature