Una mirada que incomoda. Preguntas para pensar en y alrededor de Mario Levrero y su obra

Abstract

Using “discomfort” (incomodidad) as an axis term, this paper traces and analyzes the ways in which Mario Levrero’s works challenge the categories of authorship, discourse, and work (of art). With this in mind, I examine how Levrero’s authorial figure and works confront and disrupt the institutional and cultural production, distribution and experience of literary/cultural objects in four different instances: the dislocation of the supremacy of the author, the disarticulation of the idea of work of art, the analysis of the bodily experience of reading, and the reimagining of the social and shared urban space.