Moreira, un Zarathustra cimarrón y marxista

Abstract

La obra de César Aira ha adquirido su forma reconocible a partir de los años 80. Algunos de sus relatos juveniles, conocidos mucho después o inéditos hasta el día de hoy, plantean ciertos interrogantes sobre los comienzos de la obra. Este artículo propone una lectura de Moreira (escritaen 1972, editada en 1975 y conocida después de 1981) como un texto que participa de la vanguardia de los años 60-70 y, a la vez, desborda su programa, acuñando algunos procedimientos que definirán la obra futura. La violencia formal de Moreira caracteriza los excesos vanguardistas tanto de la época como de la juventud del escritor, con una radicalidad que no volverá a manifestarse nunca enla obra posterior y cuya sublimación, conjeturamos, implica el magisterio de la obra de Borges.

César Aira’s work acquired its distinctiveness from the 1980s on. Some of the stories written in his youth, which were only known much later or are still unpublished to this day, pose some questions about the beginnings of his work. This article proposes a reading of Moreira (written in 1972, edited in 1975 and more widely known after 1981) as a text that forms parts of the avantgarde of the 60s and 70s and, at the same time, exceeds its boundaries, coining some procedures that will define Aira’s future work. Moreira’s formal violence reflects the avant-garde excesses of both the period and the writer’s youth, with a radicality that will never be manifested again in his later works and whose sublimation, we conjecture, implies the mastery of Borges’s work.