Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Rubinich, Lucas
Lucena, Daniela
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1981-2001
Idioma
spa
Extent
327 p.
Derechos
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Identificador
Cobertura
7593303
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (autonomus city)
1981-2001
Abstract
This PhD dissertation sustains that César Aira is an off-center center in the literary field of the city of Buenos Aires. Aira is a writer born in 1949 in Coronel Pringles, a southern area of the Buenos Aires province. Since 1981, Aira has published essays, plays, and, mostly, novels. By October 2019, he has published more than one hundred different books. His trajectory is contemporary to the end of the 20th Century, which witnessed the crisis of certainties, the collapse of the objectivity of values, the loss of disruptive power, and the weakening of transcendental wills that coexist without conflict.
In this dissertation, I pose questions on issues that might be considered residual, given the atmosphere described. However, these problems are still present: issues such as domination, authority and the definition of values. In the end of the 20th Century, how is authority exercised? What hierarchies are present? How are centers formed? How are values defined? Aiming at contributing to these questions, this dissertation studies the construction of a center in the literary field of Buenos Aires in the 80s and 90s.
I sustain that the center Aira has become is an atypical center: he introduces the figure of the clown, he defines a literary tradition with marginal writers, and he has a tight but deconsecrated link to the publishing market. Research with journals, magazines, and newspapers, leads to finding articles and interviews of Aira unknown to this day, and enables me to understand how this off-center center is formed, which is one of the key ideas of the hypothesis of this dissertation.
Framed in the Sociology of Art and inspired by the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, Anna Boschetti, Norbert Elias, and Ana Teresa Martínez, this dissertation analyzes the eccentric position of Aira and the conditions of production and reception of his literature from 1981, when he publishes his first book (Ema, la cautiva; Editorial de Belgrano), until I identify conventional indicators pointing to his consecration (2001).
With a relational and historical approach, focused on materials I produced through an extensive archival and fieldwork, I study Aira’s family, educational and professional trajectories, the social bonds he ties and the zones of the literary field closer to him in order to analyze and build his position and his literary project. I analyze the conditions enabling him to become an eccentric center.
In this dissertation, I pose questions on issues that might be considered residual, given the atmosphere described. However, these problems are still present: issues such as domination, authority and the definition of values. In the end of the 20th Century, how is authority exercised? What hierarchies are present? How are centers formed? How are values defined? Aiming at contributing to these questions, this dissertation studies the construction of a center in the literary field of Buenos Aires in the 80s and 90s.
I sustain that the center Aira has become is an atypical center: he introduces the figure of the clown, he defines a literary tradition with marginal writers, and he has a tight but deconsecrated link to the publishing market. Research with journals, magazines, and newspapers, leads to finding articles and interviews of Aira unknown to this day, and enables me to understand how this off-center center is formed, which is one of the key ideas of the hypothesis of this dissertation.
Framed in the Sociology of Art and inspired by the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, Anna Boschetti, Norbert Elias, and Ana Teresa Martínez, this dissertation analyzes the eccentric position of Aira and the conditions of production and reception of his literature from 1981, when he publishes his first book (Ema, la cautiva; Editorial de Belgrano), until I identify conventional indicators pointing to his consecration (2001).
With a relational and historical approach, focused on materials I produced through an extensive archival and fieldwork, I study Aira’s family, educational and professional trajectories, the social bonds he ties and the zones of the literary field closer to him in order to analyze and build his position and his literary project. I analyze the conditions enabling him to become an eccentric center.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales