Sarduy-Derrida: Writing’s Ashes or Writing as Ashes. A Reading on Memory and Oblivion

Abstract

In this article we undertook the path where the writing, the différance and the ashes call the lineal time concept −by which the history has been constructed and the becoming interpreted− into question. We believe that such concepts allow us to diversely think the topic of memory and forgetfulness. Likewise, we approach the topic through the writing of Jacques Derrida and Severo Sarduy because we think that those textual lines tend to an ethical and esthetical construction which implies vanishing points or resistances towards the totalizing aim of ontological discourse. Although the proposal we are addressing here is inscribed into two heterogeneous orders, namely literature and philosophy, both are articulated in the border defined by the textual space.