The filling and the lump. Narration and painting in Juan José Saer

Abstract

The ways of Saer’s writing pursue effects like those the writer identifies in the painting that he preferred, between Van Gogh and Pollock, Estrada and Espino. We conceptualize these ways by means of the figure of a work that seeks to move from the plane to the “impasting”, to the “clot”, to the pictorialization in relief; and we analyze its relations with Saer’s narrative method.