UNA GEOGRAFÍA PINTADA: PAISAJE Y ABSTRACCIÓN EN FICCIONES Y ENSAYOS DE JUAN JOSÉ SAER/A painted geography: landscape and abstract art in fictions and essays of Juan José Saer

• Published in: Anclajes : revista del Instituto de Análisis Semiótico del Discurso 2017-01, Vol.21 (1), p.43
• Main Author: Maranguello, Carolina
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• ISSN: 0329-3807; 1851-4669
• DOI: 10.19137/anclajes-2017-2113

Juan José Saer's literature and essays, as well as most of the criticism about the author, allow for exploration of the idea of "zone" expressed in diverse forms throughout his career. Saer, who often met with avant-gardists in the cities of Santa Fe and Rosario, joined in these literary and visual renewal movements and incorporated into his literature forms, materials, and manners of observation that resulted from these various abstract tendencies, mainly abstract expressionism and geometric abstraction. The aim here is to observe how Saer "disrealizes" the traditional landscape based on these figures and thus challenges the hasty relationship that early critics established between his texts and a more or less traditional realism. Una versión regional de la querella: azar informalista y deliberación geométrica De las diferentes experiencias de vanguardia que se mencionan en Lo imborrable, Saer parece seleccionar, en particular, dos vertientes de la pintura abstracta: el informalismo de Rita Fonseca y la abstracción geométrica de Héctor.7 Lo que resulta sugerente, sin embargo, es que ambas tendencias pictóricas trascienden el enclave temporal en el que se desarrollaron para ingresar en una serie mayor que atraviesa toda la historia del arte y comunica modos de hacer obra en la plástica y en la literatura.