Escribir en pasado. La invención de las fechas en las reediciones y reescrituras de Ricardo Piglia

Abstract

In 2005 Anagrama, the publishing house which had been reprinting almost all of Ricardo Piglia's work, publishes the first book that did not exist until Jorge Herralde sent it to the printing press : El último lector. Its edition, as well as that of La invasión in 2006, reveals the writer's effort in the construction of a delay in literary time which consists in becoming -and turning his books- ever more remote. Piglia builds his work as if it was always made of texts from the past or fixed in the past; from there, he consolidates his anachronism as an asset