David Viñas, who died 12 years ago, was a cultural animator, a provocateur who, as Marcos Zangrandi -organizer of this book that brings together 51 scattered articles in newspapers and magazines- pointed out the relationship of “literature with political life , the literary trajectories with the historical conditions, the words with the bodies, the artistic specificity with the extension of the cultural plot”. The son of a famous judge and an anarchist militant, Viñas studied with the Salesians, in the Military Lyceum he was a classmate of Alfonsín, and finally he went on to Philosophy and Letters. With his brother Ismael they founded the magazine “Contorno” in 1953, which brought together a group of their colleagues (Sebreli, Masotta, Jitrik, Recalde, Correa, Kutsch, Prieto) who, linked to existentialism and Marxism, activated the historical discussion, literary, philosophical, social and political, giving name to the generation of the 50s. Later he would become, together with Masotta, a reference for the Generation of 70. Viñas was an intellectual who spread himself in the most diverse areas, novelist, short story writer, essayist, historian, playwright, screenwriter, professor in Argentina, France, Spain, Mexico and the United States, and polemicist. For Viñas, reviewing Argentine literature serves to discover the social construction and destiny of the country. This book is based on Viñas’s notes on hunger and cannibalism in the foundation, on violence as a constant recipe to impose domination, reviews the “analgesic literature”, rereads and reinterprets his admired Sarmiento, Mansilla, “Arlt, Borges, classics”, Walsh and reviews the consequences of the Lugones model. Because they are notes written for newspapers and magazines, he condenses his ideas. It illuminates a phrase from “El juguete rabioso” to show how Arlt operated in the immediate political sphere. Viñas is always up to date on this, there are paragraphs that seem sarcastic to refute something Beatriz Sarlo said last week. She lost it and found it in a desktop.
=David Viñas, “Disorders in the literary desktop” (Bs.As., FCE, 2023, 308 pages.)
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