Passion and ethics: A space for voice and tradition in Iorio´s lyrics

Abstract

A starting point: Iorio´s work is crossed by ways of using the word of the gaucho tradition and folk lyrics. Starting from this premise, we will work on the ethical aspect of saying in Ricardo Iorio´s lyrics, in relation to the recovery of discursive forms present in those poetic traditions. To establish such a relationship, it is enlightening to delve into the practices that the author´s saying displays in his lyrics: recovery of non-urban places as spaces for his lyrics, assumption of an ethical stance without resorting to specific politicities that go beyond a consolidation of the own subject in a singular position, formulas to introduce the word, intonations. One concept, developed by Foucault, is useful: parrhesia. Its literal translation from the Greek is to say / speak frankly. It is a way in which the subject of the enunciation relates to the truth in a game of truth. The parrhesiast accepts the presence of the other in telling his truth. In Iorio there are two others for this game: who receives its truth (public), and who fulfills the role of predecessor (Larralde as a paradigmatic case, but also Martín Fierro). One element completes the genealogy to be traced: the relationship between life and work. In Iorio´s work both spheres are mutually superimposed. Without falling into biographies, but taking into account the friendly return to the author proposed by Barthes, it will be considered how his work leads life and how his life directs the work.