AUTOR: LUIS QUINTANA TEJERA
The penultimate story of the book Chet Baker thinks about his art in Vila-Matas, develops the core notions around what apparently are disjointed reflections, but which are grouped in a search for the impossible related to art, literary creation, life and the desires and inquiries of every human being.
We live anchored in death, our central concern consists precisely in postponing that death day by day, while we move between contradictions and antitheses that become incredible identities, which inhabit the silence of consciences, without daring to manifest their essence such which.
The oxymoron "dying living" takes full effect in our defenseless human condition and in the context of our aesthetic realization, because we have a sense of beauty, which is beyond ourselves and which forces us to search for it even in impossible places. We think that the mystery of art moves between opposites, while it seeks the identity that fickle thought grants.
The cultural background of Vila-Matas is interesting: the resource of the intertext is perfectly normal for him, that same intertext becomes a complicated inclusion of contemporary authors, who are dressing the world of the writer, they are complicating it to infinity, which is aims to achieve, is that all of them help to think, above all, collaborate to develop a theory that authorizes the narrator to "be in the world."
If Vila-Matas's proposal aims to challenge the recipient, it has succeeded, because in this critical reflection we offer precisely the Finnegans-Hire model, enriched by the occasional parallel reflection, which, as it is alien to the text, may be more reliable than the original.
My doubts are the fruit of the narrator's hesitations, who, like a weather vane driven by the wind, at one moment wants one thing and at another leans the other way; worse still, it is the height that a deeply logical conscience can encompass both extremes, thinking that, in this way, from the union of opposites the light will come out that will generate critical fiction.
Keywords:
Vila-Matas, opposition, opposites, oxymoron, critical fiction.
Quintana, L. (2021, octubre). La unión de los opuestos: la luz que genera la ficción crítica. “Chet Baker piensa en su arte” de Enrique Vila-Matas. Sýnklisy, volumen 0, páginas 103-120