This article examines the use of digression in La novela luminosa (2005), by the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero, as a narrative strategy that constantly suspends and displaces the main story. On the border between fiction and diary, Levrero's discourse tends to dialogue with an incomplete novel that he must finish after obtaining a Guggenheim Fellowship. Considering digression also as a transgressive practice aimed at questioning the construction of discourse itself, I analyze how in his daily records the detours and wanderings introduced by this technique define a hybrid aesthetic. Furthermore, I focus on the subversive dimension of digression and how, like desire, it tends to destabilize the order of the story.
Este artículo está enfocado en la representación de la mirada aérea y el paisaje vertical en dos textos de la escritora mexicana Valeria Luiselli. Ya sea a través de los mapas o la experiencia de viajar en avión, la perspectiva aérea evidenciaría la dificultad de representar un lugar y la posibilidad de crear un territorio ilusorio que complementa la dimensión horizontal de sus caminatas urbanas. La verticalidad del paisaje representado en los textos confronta la cotidianidad del paseo con una imagen abstracta mediada por la cultura visual de la vista aérea y el turismo. En la distancia reflexiva de la mirada vertical, la obra de Luiselli retoma la capacidad contemplativa y ensoñadora propia del desplazamiento a pie.
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