Argentinean literature’s ghosts: a critic genealogy of evil in writings

Abstract

The current paper revises the debates that take place in Argentina, in the nineties, around the poetic group “Belleza y Felicidad” in order to think relations between work and aesthetic emotion in writings, to dismantle and analyze, in terms of a genealogy of criticism, different emergence moments of figures related to evil and bad writing in contemporary Argentinean literature based on essays by Daniel Freidemberg, Beatriz Sarlo and Sandra Contreras.