Mirando el mar desde las orillas de un libro. Dos ficciones de Margo Glantz

Abstract

Margo Glantz proposes a literature that functions in a self-searching manner. The prose moves along the fold between writing and reading. The present article explores two of her early fictions, Doscientas ballenas azules (1979) and Sí­ndrome de naufragios (1984), which can be ascribed to the mexican literary current Glantz named Literatura de la Escritura in opposition to Literatura de la Onda . Its images outline the intimate relation between writing and violence: shipwrecks and the hunting of whale. Building on fragments they amplify the object into a symbolic constellation. Language is full of the eroticism demanded by totality and insistence of the body.