Everydaylife writings in the French and Argentinian “extreme contemporary” literature (1970 to our days)

Abstract

This paper analyses the irruption of everyday life in the Argentinean and French literature in the latest four decades as the key of a new representational paradigm after what Jean François Lyotard called “the collapse of the grand narrative". Three aspects emerge in this new configuration: shorts stories, life writing instead of novels and the registration of everyday life as a central theme. We study them by analyzing writings that concerned different social spaces: a neighborhood in the “conurbano”, the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in Juan Diego Incardona´s Villa Celina, the city of Cergy-Pontoise in the Parisian “banlieue” with Annie Ernaux outside diaries (Journal du dehors, La vie extérieure), downtown of Buenos Aires in Montserrat by Daniel Link, an industrial French city in Daewo by François Bon, or simply, the street like home in El Cangrejero by Javier Fernández. Our hypothesis is that this writings make visible an epistemological turn that also have place in human science field since latest seventies.