Damian Tabarovsky launches a broadside against the state of modern
Argentinean literary culture in this harsh, belligerent critique. There
are few the author doesn t take to task; he rails against the market and
academic institutions for concerning themselves only with profit and
against authors of supposedly high literature who have abandoned
experimentation in search of a greater audience. What Tabarovsky
proposes instead is a type of literature that refuses to kowtow to
standard conventions of language, plot, and genreliterature that is
written with no particular reader in mind, that is ignorant of critique
or other literature, that pushes the boundaries of aesthetics, syntax,
raison d etre. And while the individuals and institutions Tabarovsky
singles out are native to Argentina, his diatribe might well be read as
a criticism of the current state of literature in any number of
countries.
Damian Tabarovsky presenta una invectiva contra la actual cultura
literaria argentina en esta critica acida y beligerante. Hay pocos que
el autor no reprocha; ataca al mercado y a la academia por ocuparse
unicamente de las ganancias y a los autores de literatura culta por
abandonar la experimentacion en busca de un publico mas amplio. Lo que
propone Tabarovsky es un tipo de literatura que se rehuse doblegarse
ante las convenciones de lenguaje, argumento o generoliteratura que se
escribe sin tomar en cuenta algun publico, la critica u otra literatura,
que amplia los limites de la estetica, de la sintaxis ydel proposito. Y
aunque los individuos y las instituciones que Tabarovsky senala son
propios de la Argentina, su diatriba se podria interpretar como una
critica del estado de la literatura en varios paises."
