Panoctic, utopia and otherness in Museo de la Novela de la Eterna

Abstract

One twentieth century Argentinean novel is of great importance within what we might call Hispanic History, not written yet, of the insurrections of desire against the panoptic mechanism that bases the illusion of disciplinary action of its disturbing flows in the reader’s hallucination because of the verisimilitude or mimesis. This novel is Museo de la Novela de la Eterna, Macedonio Fernández, its author, presents perhaps the most scandalous and at the same time the most moving scission between desire and the realistic order, between metaphysical passion of the negation of death and the narrative form that submits it to expulsion rituals.