Contemporary Argentine Fiction

Argentine cultural expression in the 1970s has been altered time and again by the prerogatives of military rule. In a country where murder and abductions are commonplace, both censorship, as deletion of information, and torture, as its extraction and recreation, circumscribe all artistic production, conditioning the writer to encode his messages in the denser layers of the text. The more transparent books, those whose ideological fibers too sharply rebuke the Argentine "way of life," are swiftly withdrawn from circulation; their authors frequently detained or forced into exile. Prohibited texts include everything from pulp fiction and comic strips to literary journals such as Crisis and Los Libras. Seventy-three publications were sanctioned during the second half of 1978 and, in December of that year, even the prestigious Sociedad Argentina de Escritores denounced the secret decisions of government authorities who control Argentina's cultural future. Clarin reported in March 1979 that book sales dropped 50 percent during the last four years. While fifty-five million volumes were sold in Argentina in 1974, barely twenty-two million were printed in that country by 1977. This drastic decline in production and sales responds not only to government intervention, but also to the material realities of everyday life in Argentina, identifiable in the fall of real salaries and the soaring costs of pub

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