Espectadores de lecturas

Reflexiones en torno a los ciclos de lectura literaria en voz alta

Abstract

This article outlines a series of initial reflections within the framework of an investigation about the experience of viewers in literary reading aloud cycles. These are practices with an extensive tradition in the West, which acquire new modulations from the Latin American and European historical avant-garde, and which have grown significantly as a cultural phenomenon in recent decades in the province and city of Buenos Aires. We propose to analyze them as performances that establish the figure of the spectator of literary reading and establish a particular relationship between literature and bodies, through the voice of the readers and the listening of the public. Based on a series of interviews with organizers and regular participants of the literary reading cycles, and following Barthesian reflections on literary language, reading, voice and listening, we investigate the motivations that lead the public to these meetings. and the particular type of experiences that its spectators have, which a priori we consider different from the experiences of individual silent reading and the theatrical spectator.