You Can Never Say the Most Important Thing - Tribute to Ricardo Piglia

Abstract

The work essentially proposes that Piglia's story “Tribute to Roberto Arlt” is developed through an intimate connection between the so-called “two parts of the story”: the bibliographic research and “Luba” the unpublished assumption of Arlt. He has not perceived this union because he has not worked with Piglia's own idea about the existence in every brief narrative of two stories, the visible and the secret. In the interstices of the visible history of the bibliographic research is narrated one of greed and antiutopian, and in the persecution told in “Luba” another secret of redemption and utopian. To discover the opposition is necessary to understand them as a set. There are, on the other hand, elements of union: in both is narrated a persecution, the pursuit of a text in one, the persecution of a man in the other. Finally, there is a double homage: the visible history is a homage (ambiguous) to Arlt, the secret, a tribute (for the disposition of narrative devices) to Borges.