LITERARY FIELD'S RESPONSES IN THE RECENT CHILEAN NARRATIVE. TRACING THE TEXT AND EXHORTING THE FIELD

Abstract

This paper explain the literary posture of a sample of storytellers, born since the late 70s onwards, recently appeared in the Chilean literary field. The concept, coined by Jerome Meizoz (La Fabrique dels singularites, 2007), refers to the impost of formal strategies about writers present themselves to the public. Thinking in terms of literary postures involves the individual's ability to renegotiate the status and roles assigned. Their last goal will be to manage a certain position within the field, according to a codes of practice's sphere. The postures will appear directly or allegorical reproduced in the works. The genre that allows to turn off this effort from epitextual (interviews, reviews, conferences) to purely textual phenomenons is the autoficcional. Definitely, the authors establish a dialogue with the field's agents through this postures: the publishing market, the critics and the world system. Within a space of struggle of forces, the complaint against a narrow and endogamic field reverberate like an echo into a new novelistic that, for a while, seems more concerned in building up writers than the simple act of writing.