Literatura, fenomenología y hospitalidad

Abstract

Based on the aporia of hospitality raised by J. Derrida as a radical way of reciprocity which creates de space to receive the foreigner as a guest, and the theological pppost-development carried out by Christoph Theobald who identifies the Nazaren’s open style of hospitality with his holiness, this article applies the notion of hospitality to the dialogue between literature and theology. Hospitality is an experience and as such, resistant to abstraction. Being corporeal and relational are two ordinary human dimensions shared by hospitality and literature. On the one hand, the poetic operation, both in its word gestation and its hermeneutic process, becomes enriched when regarded from a hospitality point of view, inasmuch as it opens the horizon to alterity. On the other hand, hospitality as a theological style finds in the language of literature singularity, a space to generate a creative and significant writing for the present culture.