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Description of  The Opaque Experience: Literature and Disenchantment (Iberian and Latin American Studies: The Arts, Literature, and Identity)

The Opaque Experience is a thorough investigation of the changes in aesthetics that occurred in Argentina and Brazil during the 1970s and 1980s. It analyses a slow transformation of the status of the literary, which has become increasingly manifest in writing practices against the backdrop of a wider aesthetic transformation that strongly questioned traditional conventions. Through readings of works by Silviano Santiago, Juan Jos Saer, Clarice Lispector, Nstor Perlongher and Ana Cristina Cesar among others in relation to the works of artists such as Hlio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, the book seeks to understand the evolution of the notion of art. Its central argument is that artistic works of the period traverse an experiential drive that transcends artistic form. Special importance is given to historical context: when the frontiers between public and private are demolished by the authoritarian state when bare life becomes the political category Read more