Sex and Language in Rodolfo Fogwill: the performance of the damned

Abstract

The present essay analyzes the unbreakable link between sex and language, which postulates the narrative of the Argentinean writer Rodolf Fogwill. Among the variations of this particular plot, one can read a questioning on the real that renounces to the preexistence of the world as a given object, and disturbs the norms of individual sexuation. In sum, Fogwill's fiction imagines other realities, and in that performative gesture subjectivities and gender attributives are unmade, problematizing fiction's own statute.