Abstract
In this article I analyze Severo Sarduy’s fictional work, noting in it the fruitful tension between language, desire and community with the aims of discussing, from an oblique perspective, the political nature of neo-baroque literary discourse in Latin America. Through the analysis of Sarduy’s narrative texts, I seek to question the formalistic approach to the literary, underscoring the relationship between literature and experience, metalinguistic reflection and socio-historical debate. In the unfolding of this discussion, I emphasize the perception of the “difficulty of narrating”, which was signalled and shaped by Sarduy in various ways, thus demonstrating that his discursive process is linked to the notion of crisis of ideological and aesthetic values, as experienced by this provocative writer who acted decisively in the artistic and intellectual fields in the second half of the twentieth century.
Keywords
narrative; neo-baroque; politics; experience