Baroque topologies of literary thought

Abstract

 The article addresses the philosophy / literature relationship in the context of the modern Latin American novel from a Deleuzian perspective of monadology. In the first part, the discussions on indigenism are taken up to examine the extent to which the criticism and the neglect of which it was subjected are justified. The question, in this case, is whether it is a philosophical problem related to representation and, if this is the case, how does the novel escape from the philosophy of “indigenist” representation to become fully modern. The second part describes the influence of surrealism in the American novel, to show how the question about the modern is a question about the present that O. Paz managed to formulate very early in his theoretical-poetic essays. The third part raises the question about the literary worlds and their inseparable relationship with the self, the point of view and the overflowing assembly of the concept of literary machine in the image of the subject-writer.