A escrita perplexa: sobre Irrupciones, de Mario Levrero

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection about contemporary writings that, in an attempt to capture the texture of life and the truth of experience, tend to erase the distinctions between imaginary invention and registration of the real. These are writings practices that move with a peculiar versatility between fiction and autobiography, chronicle,
essay, diary, etc, expanding the limits of what is
institutionally understood by literature. An approach to the book Irrupciones by the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero (1940-2004), allow us to ask the question about the critical power of these writings which, in their liminal condition, problematize the specificity of literature and its autonomy as an artistic practice.