Spatial Displacement in Salvador Elizondo's Literary Project: from "Sila" to El mar de iguanas

Abstract

This article proposes the recovery of the first short story published by Salvador Elizondo: “Sila”, considering which as a principle of reading, projects a possible way to execute the notion of space beyond its topological possibilities, as a notion of literary space as it is proposed by Maurice Blanchot. The three parts that build the article are seeking to assess the different functions performed by the descriptive mode (spatiality / poeticity) in a scriptural discourse that borders on poetry without abandoning prose, and whose tonal and stylistic stamp is the detour of the story without being defined categorically as narration. The commentary on the story pushes a distinction between the realistic landscape and the imaginary landscape. This arch tries to discover for the reader a kind of crisis of narrativity, which is extensive to the theme of transgenericity (hybridity), and which gives way to a reflection on the relationship between writing and life, more that between writing and reality, that is why intimate writing (notebooks and diaries, for example) is the literary space where the poetics of the author’s work and literary thought occur as phenomena that can be described.