Comenzar en ruinas. Hernán Ronsino

Abstract

In four books published by Hernán Ronsino I examine the gestures of definition of a tone, a space, a thematic repertory and a type of filiation. These features correspond to what we usually call the beginnings of an author. In these narratives we perceive specific relations with past the insistent stagings of memory and tradition, just like a retrospective position in imaginary terms.
These characteristics sketch de portrait of an anachronistic author and, consequently, out of step with de dominant features of his time. I wonder here if this marginality of Ronsino is real or only apparent. Indeed, his propositions of resistance, continuation of literature and the search for the originality in the past, make of him a symptomatic figure of the literature which we call contemporary.