Hyper-retoric in El arte de la palabra by Enrique Lihn

Abstract

This article proposes that El arte de la palabra, a novel by Enrique Lihn that integrates his trilogy on power, builds a self-parodic view that unmasks the dictatorial rhetoric and the simulation of the components that shape reality. Lihn using hyper-rhetoric as a textual strategy, configures a satire of the cultural field marked by censorship. We are before a work of a phantasmal and unfinished nature, that if something is communicated to the reader, it is through the inference that occurs through the interstices of a sum of files. What prevails in narrative terms is the configuration of a trans-historic power and a critical review of the officialism of the artists who seek to approach the current regime in order to thrive.