Abstract
This paper focuses on Ricardo Piglia's essay writing, on the formal particularities that characterize his style and on the different conceptions of reader and reading that he theorizes throughout his critical production. Through a rhetoric that is both dialogic and epigrammatic, Piglia composes an ingenious form where ideas are dramatized rather than explained. It is an operation that amalgamates criticism and fiction. Our reading, guided by the question around what type of reader is constructed in Piglia’s essays, maintains that, before a reader of fiction or a reader of criticism, it is a reader-spectator of the theater who best fits his performative coordinates. Thus, by conceiving Piglia as a playwright and his readings as staging, we could make possible the premise proposed by his thought: the coexistence, in the same voice, of the critic, the narrator and the teacher.
Keywords:
Ricardo Piglia; essay; literary Argentine criticism