ntertextual games in “Respiración artificial” by Ricardo Piglia

Abstract

The literary criticism is one of the main narrative devices used by Ricardo Piglia in his novel Respiración artificial (1980). One of the particularities of this novel is the presence of multiple citations and references that place the intertext in the foreground, from which it defines a rich and complex narrative imbrication that oscillates between fiction, autobiography, and literary criticism. In this paper we will explore Piglia´s novel from the point of view of his metatextual theory, which will allow us to understand it as a cartographic construction that not only seeks to reinterpret, but also to reconfigure the literary tradition at its core. The experimental writing, composed of references, openly calls into play a series of procedures that intermingle literary genres, fragment and recreate a variety of works which, taken to different narrative planes, ultimately dissolve the limits between the field of literary criticism and creation.