La mala orilla. Una pregunta por el destino de la escritura en El Cristo de la rue Jacob de Severo Sarduy

Abstract

El Cristo de la rue Jacob (1987) by Severo Sarduy contains a theory of cutting: first , writing as performance suturing a distance , which in the author’s poetic always refers to Cuba as “ forbidden origin” (González Echevarría 1999)-, and second, the question by the end is placed within the very life of the writing itself . In this sense, El Cristo... recovers, dialectically, some issues that emerged around the publication of Escrito sobre un cuerpo (1969), book of essays with which the project of a “skin archeology” draws a direct relationship. The language of exile and erotic writing, central themes throughout the author’s work, are crossed here by the fear of death and the question of the fate of literature itself.