Silence and Repetition in the Narrative of César Aira: Thoughts about an Intratextual from Metatextuality
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Keywords

Literary Analysis
Novels
Fiction
Contemporary Literature
César Aira
Perspective
Narratology

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Silence and Repetition in the Narrative of César Aira: Thoughts about an Intratextual from Metatextuality. (2024). Cuadernos De Literatura, 28, 31. https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.cdl28.srnc
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Abstract

The work of César Aira is important because it is based on a literature exercise that is developed on each text: one page per day, without amendments, to have as a result a short novel just in a few months. Despite of the automatic appearance of this exercise, each text has many links that communicate between each other, and this process can give a new meaning to the same phrase from another text in a different narrative space; also, one text can anticipate the plot of another. On Aira’s work, intratextuality is an important element for the analysis and the possible worlds on each different work. Nevertheless, from the reading of silence by Lisa Block de Behar, between the implicit messages of the work of art and the explanation of the metatexts before them, it is not only expressed in a transgression of the silent code, but in Aira’s narrators there is a continuity from work to work based on the critical comments (metatexts) of their narrators or characters. Metatexts reconfigure the silent code, understood as an implicit message from Behar’s perspective.

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