STILL DISCUSSING THE CANON? VOICES ON/OF WRITERS

Abstract

We will start, in this text, by reflecting on the status of the texts, based on the concept of literary field, as understood by Pierre Bourdieu, as a space in which the scarcity of the type of capital at stake generates forces that, in turn, they will act on their members, according to the positions they occupy and according to the way they compete to be able to occupy, maintain or transform those positions. We will try to articulate this perspective with the process of constitution of the literary canon. In the tension between internal and external instances of validation / valuation of texts, we elected the Nobel Prize as an example of a reality in which the referred tension manifests itself clearly. Thus, at the same time that we will analyze the criteria presented for the award of the prize to a certain writer, we will take the texts that some of the writers produced in the lectures given at the acceptance of the prize, trying to highlight the way in which their understanding of the roles of the emerge emerges in them. literature and reading as an eminently human / humanizing activity.