From fiction : Futuristic and retrospective representations of a Latin-American city

Contemporary Argentine writers from the twentieth century to the present day have taken the city of Buenos Aires as an aesthetic object of representation from a variety of perspectives and genres. Each of them fragmented the space, chose customs, traced displacements according to their respective tastes, subjectivities or experiences. Some made their mark with a retrospective gaze, others with a futuristic one, some anchored themselves in the present of writing. In the form of a collage, an attempt was made to provide a journey through the city, taking as theoretical underpinnings the reflections of Walter Benjamin on the work of Baudelaire and of Virginia Woolf on the possibility of translating space into grammatical terms. And from a formal perspective considering with fidelity the Borgean principle resolved in The Aleph about the impossibility of accounting for a whole that is presented simultaneously in space and time from the language that is successive.