Entre materialismo y espiritismo: la representación artística en El ruiseñor y el artista de Eduardo L. Holmberg

Abstract

This article studies Eduardo L. Holmberg’s early short story, entitled “El ruiseñor y el artista” (1976) from the points of view of the problem of representation, of the conception of art embodied on various discourse levels, and of the ambivalence of meanings. The constant oscillation of border elements, such as life and death, wakefulness and sleep, visuality and verbality, materiality and transcendence finally reveals that the ultimate responsible for semantic inversions is writing itself, in correspondance with Wolfgang Iser’s concept of the fantastic.