“Hablando bajito en un idioma”: Walsh y la serie de “Corso”

Abstract

This essay will aim to analyze three short stories written by Rodolfo Walsh that have been peripheric in the studies of critics that focus on his work and that, at the same time, form a series. Both "Corso", “La máquina del bien y del mal" and "La mujer prohibida" are texts whose most notable feature in common is the imitation of a language that can be called "popular" along with the use of a narrator in first person who “plausibilizes” the use of that record. Faced with this phenomenon, a range of questions appear: By what transactions does literature incorporate popular voices? What is the "voice of the people"? What are their representations? The way in which Rodolfo Walsh gives "voice" to "the people" in his texts, as well as how he defines the “people´s voice” in the "voice of the people" (using Ludmer´s formula) changes throughout his work. I will attempt to study, in this work, the representations of “the people” or working class in Walsh´s texts.