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Carlos Walker
The "new" is a designation that takes shape within a dispute in pursuit of recognition, without, however, implying a specific aesthetics, theory or policy. One of the recurring expressions of this dispute in the Argentine literary field of 1969 is that it can be found in various manifestations that claim to be "desacralizing". In order to circumscribe the access to this dispute about desacralization, I will analyze two versions of this discursive phenomenon. In the first place, the characteristics of the initial stage of the books will be reviewed, since the renewal of the Argentine criticism defended from its pages was conceived as an desacralizing practice. Secondly, some characteristics of the first novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez, Sagrado will be analyzed. Today practically forgotten, it had a great critical impact at the time of its edition and thus fed the debate on the "new novel". The characteristics of the novel, from its title in dialogue with a certain dimension of the sacred, added to the disparate reception of which it was object-praises and diatribes ran parallel-gave rise to a series of interventions where the pair sacralization / desacralization was currency when putting your valuation into perspective. It is not, in short, to arrive at this way to conceptual formulations aimed at defining the sacred within the Argentine literature of the late sixties. We will try, rather, to follow some movements of the reactualización of the dispute on the literary novelty, which in 1969 is carried out against the sacred.
