Rayos en la oscuridad. El Fin de Europa (2017) de Rafael Spregelburd

  • Luz Rodríguez Carranza (Autore)
    Universidad de Leiden

    Luz Rodríguez Carranza (Córdoba, Argentina) se doctoró en la Universidad de Lovaina (K.U.Leuven, Bélgica). Es actualmente profesora visitante en en la Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (Brasil) y catedrática emérita en la Universidad de Leiden (Países Bajos). Ha sido directora del Departamento de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la U Leiden y miembro del Consejo directivo del Instituto Nacional de Teoría Literaria de los Países Bajos. Es autora de Un Teatro de la Memoria (1991), Interpelaciones, Indicios y fracturas en textos latinoamericanos (2019) y, en colaboración, de Literatura y Poder (1995), Reescrituras (2004)  Imágenes y Realismos en América Latina (2014) y Lazos: desgarraduras y vínculos en el arte y la cultura latinoamericanos (2019) . Ha publicado artículos sobre revistas culturales y literarias latinoamericanas, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges, César Aira, nuevos realismos del siglo XXI y Rafael Spregelburd (libro en preparación).

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Abstract

Roy Batty’s monologue, in Ridley Scott’s (1982) film Blade Runner, talks about the disappearance of memories. It is one manifestation, among many others, of the contemporary discourse of finitude: modern identities and emancipation projects are destined to oblivion. This discourse –a favorite in philosophy, in politics, media and in art– is that of infinite difference, fragmentation and the idea of the open, which replaces form with dissolution. It also coincides with the second law of thermodynamics, entropy. Now, the Argentine Rafael Spregelburd prefers the second law of the theory of chaos (or of set theory), which relieves iterations or intermittences, places of creation within the random fluctuation. In El Fin de Europa (2017), a series of 8 short works in more than 12 languages, simultaneous spaces are opened, possibilities of memory to be treasured by anyone. They are places, like the ones that Roy Batty lists, that remain in all their brightness and intensity, “flashing in a moment of danger” (Walter Benjamin), where subjects confront their own truth. If the end is inevitable, what counts is what is worth before it comes: life.

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2020-12-22
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Spregelburd, Finigud, Intermitencias, Memoria, Verdad