Against “What Merely Is”: Autobiographical Archive and Literary Disposition in Recent Argentine Literature

Abstract

This article investigates the ways in which some autobiographical stories published in Argentina in recent years –Diario inconsciente by Santiago Loza, Parte de la felicidad by Dolores Gil, Tan temprano by Florencia Gattari and Efectos personales by Marina Mariasch– produce an intersection of autobiographical writing and literary reflection, often in response to a tension between the need to write and the resistance of the experience to being remembered or written. These texts especially highlight the relationship between a series of materials and their disposition (rather than, for example, the question of invention) and that therefore allow us to postulate that to example, the question of invention) and that therefore allow us to postulate that to think about the autobiographical genre it is necessary to think about the particular
characteristics of its archive.