Aprendizaje estético y poética vanguardista en Argentina: Aristóteles con Héctor Libertella

Abstract

This article proposes to read two texts jointly, Aristotle’s Poetics and Hector Libertella’s New Latin America Writing (1977). Reading consists here in an exercise of equalization of two texts that are dissimilar in terms of the place they take in literary studies, and in Western Culture in general. Thus, Poetics can explain what has been taken as ‘universal’, a category that Libertella’s essay is responsible for dismantling; whereas New Latin American writing allows for approaching the classical text from the perspective of its writing. Continuities and differences between both seem to revolve around the question of apprenticeship in art.