Poetic forms in the threshold: fiction and criticism under the sign of negativity

Abstract

This study is about the poetic forms in the threshold: between the return of the poem and the advancement of the prose; criticism and fiction, or, better yet, those compositions that could be called narration-object, according to writer and critic Juan José Saer. Such forms have a double nature: the object, in its concrete opacity, and the speculation about its fictional statute, regardless of the traditional genders. Therefore, a surprising range of hybrids opens up to the contemporary narrative, hybrids that critics cannot name, assuming, under the sign of negativity, the “inapprehensible” as its most precious asset.