Literatura de izquierda

Damián Tabarovsky launches a broadside against the state of modern Argentinean literary culture in this harsh, belligerent critique. There are few the author doesn’t take to task; he rails against the market and academic institutions for concerning themselves only with profit and against authors of supposedly “high” literature who have abandoned experimentation in search of a greater audience. What Tabarovsky proposes instead is a type of literature that refuses to kowtow to standard conventions of language, plot, and genre—literature that is written with no particular reader in...