| Summary: | This article is focused on three books published in 1969, El Apando by José Revueltas, El Fiord by Osvaldo Lamborghini, and Escrito sobre un cuerpo by Severo Sarduy. It explores the radical aesthetic changes produced in the late 60s in Latin America. It argues that the “boom” phenomena produce a literature that becomes the literary norm, interpellates a great audience and develops aesthetic procedures that seemed radical. In this context, the three texts suggest a radicalization of the aesthetic practice that questions literary institution. They do that appealing to “theory.” The theory is not a discipline, or a way of knowledge either but a kind of device, a way of state the culture in conceptual and abstract terms. But it is also a way of creating a network of connections between discourses and practices. Theory and aesthetic radicalism are interconnected in the works of these three writers. They create an alternative and radical form of thinking the relationship between literature and politics.
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