Literature, life, money. The diaries of Fabián Casas and Rosario Bléfari

Abstract

When considering the reading and analysis of a diary, several questions arise, especially questions about the status of the literary genre and writing itself. Because, from the diarist's point of view, one can write to become a writer or feel like a writer, to combat the idea of failure or fraud of oneself as a writer, one can have the diary as a repository of ideas, sketches of poems, stories. , novels, songs, or you can have a diary for the sole pleasure of writing a little every day. All these possibilities run through the diaries of Rosario Bléfari and Fabián Casas, and show in their unfolding profound aesthetic, and even gender, differences.