"The writer as a reader"

Abstract

In his essay ”The Writer as a Reader” Ricardo Piglia examines the effects of Witold Gombrowicz's stay in Buenos Aires in the years 1939-1963 on the culture of Argentine. At the beginning, he discusses the implications ”Against Poets” and the translation of Ferdydurke for the Spanish language. He also addresses the issue of development of the literary canon, the so-called ”economics of literary value” and considers Gombrowicz's work in terms of his exile and exclusion. Finally, he considers Gombrowicz’s Diary as a laboratory of the writer’s oeuvre.