BREVITY : A QUESTION OF RHYTHM. THOUGHTS ON ANDRES RIVERA'S LITERATURE

This article deals with a theoretical problem : the processes of brevity in literature. Starting from the distinction between brevity (a notion that falls within the domain of enunciation) and short text (dimensional nature of writing), we focus here on the work of the Argentine writer Andres Rivera (Buenos Aires, 1928-2016), master of doubtful enunciation in contemporary Argentine literature. Nevertheless, the historical reality of the 19th and 20th centuries is the favorite material of his narrative fiction. Our attention focused on the processes implemented to divert the narrative organization and the sentence rhythm. In a prose composed of sentences that become longer and longer, in texts that become shorter and shorter, discontinuity creates a dynamic of legible brevity in a narrative rhythm scattered with blanks, ellipses and repetition, figures.