El vacío milagroso: sobre la presencia del cine en la escritura de Mario Bellatin

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to the knowledge of the presence of cinema in Bellatin's literature. Without going into the essays that the writer has carried out with the cinematographic record, it seeks to account for the presence of cinema in the rigid laws of the Bellatinian creative process through some declarations of the author as well as with some manifestations of the seventh art in his writing. The privileged case will be the film Simón del desierto (1965) by Luis Buñuel present in one of his stories, “En tu casa habita otro inquilino” (2018), which will open the possibility of thinking about two aspects that link Bellatin with the cinema at the same time that they distance him from their budgets: the importance of the site, the space, over time; and the existence of an evanescent pedagogy where one learns from an involuntary and heterogeneous teacher whose knowledge, however, is lost in the strength and uniqueness of the Bellatinian writing project.