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El país de los hijos: la experiencia de la comunidad en El entenado de Juan José Saer
- Revista Hispánica Moderna
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 72, Number 1, June 2019
- pp. 25-44
- 10.1353/rhm.2019.0001
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
This article is based on the hypothesis that El entenado (1983) by Juan José Saer constitutes an interrogation about the political-philosophical problematic of the community. The Colastiné tribe proposes a figure of the community that escapes both the idea of political representation and the thesis of a constitutively social bond. Neither individuals whose addition constitutes a major entity nor common essence from which its members come off, the Colastinés suggest, instead, a being-in-common. In the fracture that separates the discontinuous beings, and in which the community is cyclically at risk, the experience of the protagonist is possible. His enigmatic role will escape all euro-centric civilizational interpretation, and from this misunderstanding comes the opaque but unequivocal sense of the story, told as a memoir.