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Revisiting Literary Value and Consecration at the Turn of the Century: the Critical Reception of César Aira's Works in the 1980s and 1990s
Poetics ( IF 1.857 ) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101650
María Belén Riveiro 1
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Scholarly attention on literary production usually presupposes the value of the works studied. This article argues that a sociological approach is vital to address the historical process behind the definition of literary value. The question resides on how a successful literary career is built, such as the one of the Argentine writer César Aira, who, in stark contrast with the recognition of being in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature of 2019, in the 1970s received only rejections from publishers.

Avoiding a retrospective narrative and the opposition between internal and external analysis of literary works, this article studies the trajectory of Aira focusing on one of the mediations between the text and the context: the critical reception. I have identified primary sources that remained unexplored, and built a periodization of the reception of the books by Aira between 1981, when his first books were published, and 2001, when I find numerous indicators of his growing consecration. Paying attention to the historical, material, and symbolic dimensions, the findings contribute to scholarship on how critics’ agreements and literary value morphs, on the process of consecration amidst the erosion of authorities, and on sociocultural events key in Latin American and Argentine history.



中文翻译:

重新审视世纪之交的文学价值和奉献:1980年代和1990年代塞萨尔·艾拉作品的批判性接受

对文学作品的学术关注通常以所研究作品的价值为前提。本文认为,社会学方法对于解决文学价值定义背后的历史过程至关重要。问题在于如何建立成功的文学事业,例如阿根廷作家塞萨尔·艾拉 (César Aira) 的一位,与 2019 年诺贝尔文学奖角逐的认可形成鲜明对比的是,他在 1970 年代只收到了拒绝来自出版商。

避免回顾性叙述和文学作品内外分析的对立,本文研究艾拉的轨迹,重点关注文本与语境之间的中介之一:批评接受。我已经确定了尚未探索的主要来源,并建立了从 1981 年艾拉(Aira)出版第一本书到 2001 年(当时我发现许多迹象表明他越来越奉献的迹象)期间对艾拉书籍的接受情况的分期。关注历史、物质和象征层面,这些发现有助于研究评论家的协议和文学价值如何演变、权威侵蚀中的奉献过程以及拉丁美洲和阿根廷历史上的关键社会文化事件。

更新日期:2022-02-02
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