Mirando El Cielo (1968-1969)

Abstract

This essay aims to study the three issues of El Cielo (1968-1969), a literary review published by César Aira and Arturo Carrera, and introduces some of the links among different contemporary projects, both cultural and publishing. El Cielo included some unpublished literary works, literary translations, and some visual art and literary criticism. All these texts are set together under a constructive principle that is rather poetic than communicational. In this approach, El Cielo chose to settle between two avant-gardes: Surrealism and Pop Culture. The aesthetic affiliations shown by the magazine are also proof of this choice. All these features were developed and can be traced later on in Aira’s and Carrera’s literary works.