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- Title
'Discourse with the Incorporeal Air': Spectres of Walsh in Plata quemada.
- Authors
CONLON, DAVID
- Abstract
This article suggests that Ricardo Piglia's non-fiction crime novel Plata quemada (1997) be read as a conscious homage to Rodolfo Walsh's earlier non-fiction novel ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? (1969). The suggested reading takes as its point of departure the appearance in Piglia's text of an oblique reference to the 'play-within-theplay' of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which also contains echoes of a detail from ¿Quién mató a Rosendo?. Following on from this, the article's argument is threefold: 1) that ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? and Plata quemada are both concerned with a dramatization of economic paradigms, which amounts to an unveiling of the hidden violence of capitalism; 2) that Plata quemada reflects the evolution of the nature of capitalism, labour, and society in the period between 1969 and 1997; 3) that in its engagement with Walsh's text via Hamlet, Plata quemada constitutes an act of mourning for Walsh, who was killed by the 1976-1983 military regime, but also in respect of the decline of the traditional left more generally.
- Subjects
PLATA Quemada (Book); PIGLIA, Ricardo, 1941-2017; MYSTERY fiction; WALSH, Rodolfo; QUIEN mato a Rosendo? (Book); INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.); NONFICTION novel
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2018, Vol 95, Issue 6, p657
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2018.38