Traiciones en El camino de Ida

• Main Author: Luis Othoniel Rosa
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata 2019-02-01
• Series: Cuadernos LIRICO
• Subjects: anarchism; Occupy; Princeton; novel; Latin America
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/lirico/7670

This essay argues that the novel El camino de Ida betrays the greatest innovation of Piglia’s work, that is, to recreate a political “aura” to the Borgesian figure of the paranoid reader. The article is an in-depth study of three main influences in the novel: the historical context in which it is written (the events on 11 september 2001, the economic crisis of 2008 and the emergence of the Occupy Wall St. movement), the traces of anarchism readable in the entire work of the writer, and the many dissertations and book projects of Piglia’s students in Princeton that are secretly alluded to in El camino de Ida.