Citation

Wolff J. Alea 2021; 23(3): 40-57.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Programa de Pos-Graduação em Letras Neolatinas, Faculdade de Letras -UFRJ)

DOI

10.1590/1517-106X/20212334057

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to record and unravel a singular recurrence within César Aira's work; namely the double appearance of the specter of writer Leopoldo Lugones (1874-1938), supplemented in both occasions by Marquis de Sade. Aira took two completely different approaches to these appearances by the author of Lunario sentimental and La guerra gaucha: the first one, in Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos in 1985, was brief, biographical, destructive; the second one, in Lugones in 1990, was lengthy, pathetic and amusing, a fictional account of the Argentinian writer on the day of his suicide. Both appearances conclude by referencing the Marquis of Sade in a similar yet different iteration that fuses life and work, experience and fiction in a sarcastic and violent manner. © 2021 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. All rights reserved.

Language: pt

Keywords

César Aira; Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos; Lugones; Sade