La pesquisa de Juan José Saer: escrita, crítica e gênero na Literatura Argentina

Abstract

The gender hybridism has become an important character of contemporary literature and literary criticism doesn’t elude this phenomenon. Not only criticism has to deal with de definition of the concept of gender in literary works, as it becomes itself an element of mixing and generic hybridism in texts that merge essay and novel or present critical discussions within fictional texts. From a brief history of the configuration of the Argentine Literature since the nineteenth century and an attempt to define – as brief as possible – the category of literary genre, this article aims to discuss and analyze the novel La pesquisa (The Investigation), by Juan José Saer, from three angles. First, we discuss the role of crime fiction in the text, then we analyze the gender hybridism as a narrative praxis in the work of Saer, and finally we aim to demonstrate how his work fits in the Argentinean literary tradition that builds itself from a literary self-reflection, from generic mixing and form the creation of strong author figures in an intellectual field marked by incessant controversies as by intellectual and ideological strong positions.