Animality and aesthetics of excesses in Argentine literature

Abstract

This article analyses the text ¨The fiord¨ (1969) from the Argentinean writer Osvaldo Lamborghini. Furthermore, from the perspective of the aesthetics of the literature, we consider that it’s important to see how through the corporal-symbolic studies it´s possible to identify the animal and political aspects of the tale. All this, is related to the work with language and to the process of writing. The culture constructed in the text can be characterized both by the liminal spaces and by the series of rituals and of grotesques images that point out the body in exhibition, deformed and disaggregated, which are closely associated to political aspects that produce an identity built on social practices, particularized by the violence and the sexuality. It is through the violence and the process of animal configuration that the bodies are capable to enter in contact and to clash in order to crate tensions in the relations of power, this is the politicization of the bodies. The physical uses of the body produce effects such as the pain, the disgust, the anger and the morbidity. In the space of a small house where we can find the ex- Peronist militants, the excesses of the sexual practices end up with an anthropophagic banquet. Articulated to the violence (in the body and in the language), are the animalization regarding to physical relationships, the penetration and the dismemberment of flesh.