Abstract

<title/>A significant aspect of Juan José Saer’s La pesquisa is its filmically charged ‘noir’ style which seems to disclose a distinct preoccupation with space. In other words, through its simulation of some of the more structural components of ‘noir’ cinema such as disorienting camera angles and vertiginous frame compositions, the novel is able to create a geography of unease. Indeed, one could go as far as to posit the noir aesthetic as a kind of spatial anxiety that reacts to the topographical power relations and modes of domination within a particular historical context. With the case of Saer, such an aesthetic seems to be grounded upon Argentina’s own immediate history — namely, the 1976-83 dictatorship and the subsequent implementation of a neo-liberal economic model, both of which, I contend, create a free-floating tension that indelibly translates onto the written page. As such, the goal of this essay will be to elucidate Saer’s specifically cinematic use of ‘noir’ in La pesquisa in order to show how said style or code functions to map the spatial anxieties of modern Argentine society.Un aspecto significativo de la novela La pesquisa, escrita por Juan José Saer, es su simulación de una cinematografía noir que parece demostrar una preocupación por el espacio. Dicho de otra forma, a través del empleo de ciertos componentes estructurales del cine negro como, por ejemplo, los ángulos desorientadores de cámara o las composiciones visuales vertiginosas, la novela logra crear una geografía de inquietud. En realidad, se puede plantear la estética ‘noir’ como una ansiedad espacial que parece ser una reacción a una topografía de poder y dominación de un contexto histórico específico. En el caso de Saer, tal estética parece fundarse en la historia reciente de Argentina — sobre todo, en la dictadura y la subsecuente implementación de un modelo económico neo-liberal, los cuales dan pie a una tensión flotante que se traduce a la novela. Como tal, la meta de este ensayo será dilucidar el uso cinemático del ‘noir’ en La pesquisa para ver cómo tal estilo o código sirve para proponer una cartografía de las ansiedades espaciales de la sociedad argentina moderna.

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