Fermín Rodriguez, literary critic and PhD in Argentine litterature, says that the litterature of the XXIst century is « like a ticking clock » (Kafka): it is the only thing that can name and anticipate this real that happens in the present when niether science nor doxa can symbolize it – they may do so long after the events have occurred. For him, Kafka anticipated Nazism, Lamborghini, the violence of the 70s and Aira, as well as the 2001 crisis.

He then defines the figure of the literary critic and places his own singular relationship to writing from the moment he abandonned poetry, that is marked by the logic of desire and fault, to devote himself to the critical writing that he finds open to the encounter, and belonging to the logic of events.

Translation: Julia Richards