| Summary: | In Los diarios de Emilio Renzi, Ricardo Piglia sets in motion "a poetics of ellipsis and distance". The use of the technique that the Russian formalists called ostranenie originates here a low tone, which avoids shrillness. What appears as autobiographical modesty in the diaries emerges in other texts as a fundamental poetic key that consists of displacing the subject of enunciation to put on other’s mouth the expression of one's own pain. "The truth has the structure of a fiction where another person speaks. You have to make a place in the language so that the other can speak", says Piglia. From his point of view, literature is a space where truth can be told. The article analyzes the idea of truth in some texts and the relationship it maintains with literature.
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