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Alejandra Laera
This article aims to approach a comprehensive set of contemporary narratives by acknowledging the writer's activity in terms of 'work' and, consequently, focusing on the ways the writer's body exhibits such work. I intend to regain the concept of 'work' as a paramount frame of reference to think both literary productions and writers' views, so as to link different perspectives regarding the writers' activities (e.g., sociological, historical and culturalist approaches) with those theoretical inquiries concerning the connection between writing and the topic of the body (such as textualist, deconstructionist and Benjaminian approaches).
To do so, I will examine a broad spectrum of works. From Ricardo Piglia's Los diarios de Emilio Renzi, Maria Moreno's Black outand Mario Levrero's La novela luminosato Juan José Becerra's El artista más grande del mundo, Lina Meruane's Sangre en el ojoand Sergio Chejfec's Últimas noticias de la esctritura. There, I propose to highlight the relation between writers, work and body through these writers' imagination, either in terms of self-representation, fiction or documentalism.
From this perspective, the article explores how specific uses and placements of a body in a writing situation could be thought or perceived, throughout its routine, as a 'working-body'; hence, as a body that is part of a productive process that entails, eventually, a monetary compensation. The former brings up to the question of whether the writer's body could be considered as a workforce. Also, if so: What types of representations do the writers mentioned above create concerning that matter? What notions of literature and views of their social role do they intend or imply in doing so?
