Aldo Oliva: a ghost in Argentine poetry

• Main Author: Bruno Crisorio
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata 2017-03-01
• Series: Estudios de Teoría Literaria
• Subjects: poesía; historia de la literatura; walter benjamin; anacronismo; atlas
• Online Access: http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/1723

Aldo Oliva (1927-2000) presents several problems to the researcher: acknowledged as an indispensable voice in Argentinian poetry (to quote David Viñas), his work, however, still waits for academic reception, and has circulated for many years in a marginal and reduced way. His reluctance to publish, his distance from any poetic movement of the second half of the XXth century, the complexity of his work explains, in part, this situation. In this context, the present article tries to locate Oliva in the history of Argentinian poetry; to that end, and considering that his work as well as his creative project prevent any linear and chronological approach, I have used the concepts of “anachronism” (Didi-Huberman), “contemporary” (Agamben) o “constellation” (Benjamin), that revealed themselves useful to think this spectral figure that is at the same time unavoidable and invisible.