Sense traffic in Southern Cone literature

Three essays to get in touch with the most innovative literature of the Southern Cone. Four of the most interesting authors from Chile, Argentina and Uruguay are analyzed in their highly explosive and brilliant aesthetics. In this text we review the pulsional origins of the act of narrating in Juan Jose Saer and the materialization of this speculative impulse in one of his detective novels; the neo-baroque as the symbolic realm of the mutilated body in Copi, a writer who imitates the baroque retruecano in the faralados of the freak costume; and the instrumentalization of female corporeality in two novels by Felisberto Hernandez and Jorge Baradit, the former a Uruguayan artist with a unique style and the latter a representative of Chilean freak power.The three texts included focus on contemporary and avant-garde aesthetic themes as diverse as the Nouveau Roman, the Baroque and its aspects, as well as Latin American fantasy and science fiction.